Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
On her own terms
Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman.
Aeon audio explores the most …
3 months ago
The insurance catastrophe
Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem?.
Aeon audio explores the most…
3 months, 1 week ago
Who is Walter Mignolo?
A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed.
Aeon audio explores the most prof…
3 months, 1 week ago
Our phosphorescent world
This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken.
Aeon audio explores the mo…
3 months, 1 week ago
The inflammation age
Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift.
Aeon audio explores the mos…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
There are no psychopaths
Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?.
Aeon audio explores the m…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The presence of power
The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel.
Aeon audio explores the most pro…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The six-second hug
From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits.
Aeon audio explores…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Conservation’s prejudice
Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness.
Aeon audio explores the most prof…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
‘I awoke at ½ past 7’
Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame.
Aeon audio explores the most…
3 months, 2 weeks ago