videoDemography and migration
The volunteers who offer a last line of care for migrants at a contentious border
30 minutes
essayKnowledge
Socrates would be pleased
With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
Jay Miller
essayHuman rights and justice
Knowledge and justice
Any legal system that fails to compensate people for epistemic harm is unjust. Their damage must be named and remedied
Mitch Woolery
essayDeath
Freedom over death
Death is a certainty. But choosing how and when we depart is a modest opportunity for freedom – and dignity
Michael Cholbi
essayGender
Taliban bride
Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter
Zala & Asad Nariman
essayTechnology and the self
The unseen
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
Allison J Pugh
essayNeurodiversity
Our diverse togetherness
While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish
Chelsea Wallis
essayHuman rights and justice
Levelling the world
Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire
Rowan Wilson
essayEthics
Moral refuge
You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees?
Bradley Hillier-Smith
videoHuman rights and justice
Surreal, dazzling visuals form an Iranian expat’s tribute to defiance back home
10 minutes
essayHuman rights and justice
Struggling to wake
After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?
Ayisha Osori
essayPolitical philosophy
A right to exist?
Since states are founded on violence and expulsion, their existence is always bound up in thorny questions about justice
Andrew F March
essayHuman rights and justice
Did you think you were safe?
When I moved to India for work, I found that rape was a feature of the country, as deeply embedded as caste
Evelyn Fok
essayPoverty and development
Poverty is not permanent
By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress towards a lofty goal: dignity for all
Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen
essayArt
Threads of resistance
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest
Gemma McKenzie
essayHuman rights and justice
What’s in the rule of law?
The British Empire used a great democratic ideal to manufacture racial difference and rationalise colonial domination
Kanika Sharma
essayEducation
A valiant experiment
The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa
David Dyzenhaus
essayHuman evolution
The eugenicist of UNESCO
Why did Julian S Huxley, first director of the UN agency, think eugenics held the key to a more evolved, harmonious world?
Stefan Bernhardt-Radu
essayBioethics
The cochlear question
As the hearing parent of a deaf baby, I’m confronted with an agonising decision: should I give her an implant to help her hear?
Abi Stephenson
videoPolitical philosophy
The radical activist couple who fought for social change in the courtroom
21 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
When a burial for slave trade victims is unearthed, a small island faces a reckoning
29 minutes
essayNations and empires
Colonies of former colonies
India’s ongoing subjugation of Kashmir holds portentous lessons about the nature of contemporary colonialism
Hafsa Kanjwal
videoHuman rights and justice
Can providing humanitarian aid be illegal? A troubling case from the US-Mexico border
17 minutes
essayHuman rights and justice
Utah is so gay!
The Mormon state is seen as deeply homophobic. Yet, from polygamy to pride, Mormons themselves are a distinctly queer lot
Kristi Rhead