Essay/History American secular The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong? Sam Haselby
Essay/Work The quitting economy When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit Ilana Gershon
Idea/Beauty & Aesthetics The revolutionary figure of the beautiful, self-improved soul Justine Kolata
Essay/Bioethics The pig on your plate That pigs are smart and sensitive is not in doubt. How can we justify continuing to kill them for food? Barbara J King
Idea/Politics & Government Moderation may be the most challenging and rewarding virtue Aurelian Craiutu
Essay/Demography & Migration Law in the Jungle The ultimate ‘outsider’ space, the Jungle refugee camp in Calais became its own society, the no-borders idea made real Natasha King
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
Essay/History ‘Here we are all the same’ The US Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning Richard D Brown
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence Had a good think lately? Not busy-work, ticking off to-do lists or keeping-up-with-stuff. Just sitting. And thinking. Is it so hard? André Spicer
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
Idea/Law & Justice How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women Tonja Jacobi & Dylan Schweers
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 Platonically irrational How much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases? Pretty much everything, it turns out Nick Romeo
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/Politics & Government How Robert Nozick put a purple prose bomb under analytical philosophy Brad Baranowski
Idea/Economics When faced with so-called ‘progressive business’, stay skeptical Christian O Christiansen
Essay/Music Now THAT was music One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over? Lary Wallace
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
Idea/Internet & Communication Should you feel sad about the demise of the handwritten letter? Siobhan Phillips
Essay/Medical Ethics Intersex rights Children born with in-between sex development are subject to surgeries that many believe violate their human rights Alice Dreger
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
Idea/Education The slow professor can dish out a more nutritious education Barbara Seeber & Maggie Berg