Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses - by Alvina Hoffmann Read on Aeon
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser Read on Aeon
For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many meanings - by Vivek V Venkataraman Read on Aeon
Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? - by Jenny Greene Read on Aeon
Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something sacred - by Nicholas Humphrey Read on Aeon
Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence - by Mette Leonard Høeg Read on Aeon