Idea/Politics & Government Moderation may be the most challenging and rewarding virtue Aurelian Craiutu
Video/Social Psychology Laughing at others’ misfortune is fine for ‘fail’ videos. It’s poison for politics 6 minutes
Essay/Politics & Government Return of the grotesque The postmodern carnival has arrived, and there are good reasons to prefer François Rabelais’s version Robert D Zaretsky
Idea/Politics & Government Even the ancient Greeks thought their best days were history Johanna Hanink
Video/Demography & Migration The island where 50 million crabs roam free and refugees are trapped in limbo 21 minutes
Idea/Stories & Literature So I exaggerate a little – am I wrong to jazz up my stories? Andrea Askowitz
Essay/Politics & Government The bloodstained leveller Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence? Walter Scheidel
Essay/Anthropology The scalp from Sand Creek Even after museums return human remains pillaged from a massacre in 1864, can repatriation heal the wounds of history? Chip Colwell
Essay/Personality First impressions count A judgment of competence is made in a tenth of a second on the basis of facial features. Thus political decisions are made Alexander Todorov
Essay/History Why the Tudors still rule The Tudors are always good box office, but their melodramatic lives distract from a much deeper legacy of civic nationhood Anna Whitelock
Essay/Politics & Government American dreaming 3.0 Embrace dreams as a counter to the naive realism of politics today, and they could become a potent democratic force Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Essay/Politics & Government Democracy needs politeness Autocrats shouted, cursed, and bullied, while American revolutionaries used politeness as a tool of radical politics Steven Bullock
Essay/Economics What is human capital? Human capital theory was invented as an ideological weapon in the Cold War. Now it is helping to Uberise the world of work Peter Fleming
Idea/Rituals & Celebrations How to get your kicks in the hermit kingdom of North Korea Laya Maheshwari
Idea/Politics & Government How Robert Nozick put a purple prose bomb under analytical philosophy Brad Baranowski
Essay/Political Philosophy Join the party of love Love is not just a feeling given or received, it is an action too. It could be a radical force in politics Max Harris
Essay/Politics & Government Age of sincerity In politics, as in militant religion, the performance of sincerity is everything, no matter whether right or wrong Faisal Devji
Essay/History of Ideas What is good rhetoric? Plato said we ought to be suspicious of persuasive speakers and the appeal to emotions. But rhetoric can be a civic good Tushar Irani
Essay/History A much-maligned Mughal The great king Aurangzeb is among the most hated men in Indian history. A historian claims he’s been unjustly demonised Audrey Truschke
Video/War & Conflict ‘Semper paratus’ – how the organisation of the Roman army made it always ready for war 3 minutes
Essay/Politics & Government When nations apologise National apologies are a big deal: they acknowledge the past to help move everyone forward. No wonder they’re so hard Edwin Battistella