A life in episodes
For a decade, I’ve posted episodes of my memoir to Facebook. My readers correct my understanding of my past. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us ...
5 Okt 33min
Life on a hair trigger
A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays th...
2 Okt 25min
Reason is more than a tool
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that ...
1 Okt 24min
Don’t use the ‘C-word’
A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays tha...
29 Sep 29min
Paternity is poetical
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that...
28 Sep 24min
Chasing la dolce vita
Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
26 Sep 23min
Reasoning together
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
25 Sep 21min
Where a land ethic blooms
Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
24 Sep 28min
