The embattled witnesses
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essay...
26 Maj 26min
Can ecosystems malfunction?
We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make...
25 Maj 36min
Being small
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that ...
22 Maj 28min
Make immigration boring
The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays t...
21 Maj 17min
Maritime China
Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays...
19 Maj 24min
Mathematics is out there
Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays t...
18 Maj 27min
Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that ...
15 Maj 19min
Rights require money
Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays tha...
14 Maj 26min
