Aeon2d
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise ...
Aeon5d
My leap across the chasm
After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to think a heretical form of Christianity might be true. Here’s why ...
Aeon9d
Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love
Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love ...
Aeon6d
Clock time contra lived time
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
Aeon13d
The sprawling mural that depicts an unflinching people’s history of Los Angeles
Fifty years in the making, the Great Wall of Los Angeles is a half-mile monument to the marginalised histories of California ...
Aeon4d
There are fragments of Romani Gypsy history all over the UK – if one knows where to look
A walk through the English countryside reveals tangible yet long-overlooked traces of a nomadic culture’s long presence ...
Aeon13d
When luxury is good
The waste and exploitation of fast fashion shouldn’t blind us to the joys of making beautiful clothing with care ...