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Elif Shafak on Why We Need Global Solidarity More Than Ever

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11 Dec 2017

Award-winning novelist, public intellectual and political commentator Elif Shafak offers cautionary advice about the provisional nature of democracy in the west and the rise of populism – and how close we are to slipping back at any point.
Michael Ignatieff on whether Human Solidarity Exists

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20 Nov 2017

Former Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff asks whether or not the principle of human rights is becoming a global ethic, or the preserve of a liberal economic elite.
Hugo Mercier on The Function of Reason

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03 Jul 2017

Cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier and his colleague Dan Sperber have made waves with the surprising results of years of research – that our power to reason has nothing to do with accuracy or truth-seeking.
Roman Krznaric on How to Seize the Political Day

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12 Jun 2017

Leading social philosopher and former political scientist Roman Krznaric offers a new roadmap for reinventing democratic politics in the twenty-first century.
Mo Gawdat on an Algorithm for Happiness

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08 May 2017

Mo Gawdat is Chief Business Officer at [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google's futuristic dream factory. In 2011 he proposed an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness.
Svend Brinkmann on Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze

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06 Mar 2017

Danish psychologist and media sensation Svend Brinkmann argues that too much self-help has atomized society and made us ill.
Raoul Martinez on Life is Just a Lottery

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11 Nov 2016

Freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are? Raoul Martinez reflects on one of the most urgent questions of our time.
Mark Greif on Economic Inequality

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07 Nov 2016

Mark Greif explores the philosophical and political arguments laid out in his essay ‘The Meaning of Life, Part II’, which touches on thoughts on a universal citizen’s income, poverty, property and ‘morally relevant inequality’.
Krista Tippett on Becoming Wise

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13 Sep 2016

Tippett explores the enduring question of what it is to be human, and how we can learn to live with greater, joy, compassion and wisdom, both individually and collectively.
Michael Puett on The Path to Living Well

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16 Aug 2016

Harvard’s most popular philosopher Michael Puett draws from ancient Chinese teachings to help us re-examine and challenge deeply-held assumptions about how to live our lives.