Something is amiss with democracy. Ask people from any or no political persuasion and they’re likely to give a similar story: contemporary politics has gone haywire because one side (or both) has lost ...

is dean for the Welsh Language and reader in philosophy at Cardiff University and associate lecturer with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol in Wales. The year 2023 marks the tercentenary of the birth of ...

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses ...

Existentialism has had many alleged births. Famous ones include the melancholy of Søren Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen, Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, and the Parisian glamour of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1945 ...

Think back to the last time you fell over in a public place. What did you do next? Perhaps you immediately righted yourself and carried on exactly as before. I bet you didn’t, though. I bet you first ...

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Aeon, an international magazine of ideas, is launching a philosophy prize to support and publish outstanding philosophical writing by new and emerging academics. Shortlisted finalists will have the ...

In the 1930s, a Belgian priest and physicist named Georges Lemaître transformed our understanding of the Universe when he envisioned its birth as a cosmic explosion. According to Lemaître, the ...

The art of ‘being for another’ – following, listening to and making sense of another person’s world – has been practised for millennia. Humans have always discussed their lives, their values and their ...

Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two ...

Over the past two decades, ever-smaller video cameras, an explosion in user-uploaded, largely unmoderated internet pornography and blindspots in law enforcement have given rise to an epidemic of ...

At our English boarding school in the 1990s, my friends and I would spend hours immersed in roleplaying games. Our favourite was Vampire: The Masquerade, and I can well remember experiencing a kind of ...