Culture clash
C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ess...
6 Aug 34min
Towards an AI for Africa
Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays tha...
4 Aug 17min
Thucydides the perspicacious
Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays ...
3 Aug 21min
Resist the technocrats
Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ess...
31 Jul 25min
How art invented humanity
When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essay...
30 Jul 29min
The light narrows
My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays ...
28 Jul 29min
The taming of Black thought
Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into reassurance. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ess...
27 Jul 24min
Signal then storm
Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through ess...
24 Jul 28min
