The Black executioner
Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through es...
27 Apr 22min
White-collar sweatshops
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make s...
25 Apr 32min
Does reading do us any good?
Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
24 Apr 29min
No nature without fear
Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays t...
23 Apr 30min
Justice is geometric
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays th...
21 Apr 23min
Fuel for thought
A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us m...
20 Apr 21min
The invention of the soul
Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something sacred. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essay...
17 Apr 25min
Join the dots
Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through e...
16 Apr 14min
