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Bestselling Sociologist Sarah Thornton - Why Breasts Matter
After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive su…
1 year, 11 months ago
Stephanie Harrison - How to Get Happiness Right in a World That’s Got it Wrong
In a society where stress and competition run rampant, how can we find a more fulfilling sense of happiness? Well-being expert and founder of The New…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ruchir Sharma - How Capitalism Went Wrong
What went wrong with capitalism? Drawing on his decades of experience as a world-leading investor and FT columnist, leading financial analyst Ruchir …
1 year, 11 months ago
Olympic Gold medallist and entrepreneur Mark Tuitert – How Stoic Philosophy Can Change Your Life
For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning Olympic champion athlete, successful entrep…
2 years ago
Yanis Varoufakis - The Rise of Technofeudalism
Welcome to technofeudalism. The owners of big tech have become the world’s feudal overlords—replacing capitalism with a new system that defies democr…
2 years ago
Bestselling Science Writer David Robson - The Laws of Social Connection
Social connection is essential to our wellbeing, not only fuelling creativity and enriching our sense of meaning in life, but also adding years to ou…
2 years ago
Naomi Klein - The Mirror World of Conspiracists and the Far-Right
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for …
2 years ago
Clover Stroud - On Home, Belonging, and Letting Go
When her husband's work required journalist Clover Stroud to uproot from Oxfordshire to Washington DC, she began a deep and profound reflection on th…
2 years ago
Anna Funder - Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
If you read the major biographies of George Orwell you would be hard-pressed to know that his wife Eileen shaped his life and writing in profoundly s…
2 years ago
Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan - On Love, Memory, and History
One of Australia's leading authors, Richard Flanagan won the Booker for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a novel informed by his father's experienc…
2 years ago