Thoughts unfit for contemporary survival
Technolibertarians want to plug cords into your brain. Christian nationalists want to build a kingdom for Christ. They don't match — and yet, as Erik Davis explains, they are fusing. A conversation about gnosticism, Musk, Thiel, Mars, and the fear of dying.
Should you pay people to get vaccinated? Can organ markets be ethical? Is there a drug that could make us morally better? Julian Savulescu doesn't ask these questions to provoke. He asks them because he thinks the answers matter — and because most people are too uncomfortable to try.
Karin Jordan has spent decades arguing that managing suffering isn't a soft add-on to cancer treatment — it's the whole point. A conversation about war metaphors, invisible medicine, and why "fighting cancer" may be doing patients a disservice.
Can a brain scan prove you're lying about beauty? Does hate have evolutionary advantages? In this interview, neurobiologist Semir Zeki—father of neuroaesthetics—challenges our assumptions about art, love, and what it means to experience something as beautiful.
From moon mission candidate to disillusioned observer: photographer Rhiannon Adam reveals how space—humanity's symbol of freedom—has become a playground for billionaires. An interview about photography as truth, AI as a mirror of our biases, and the betrayal of our collective dreams
Israeli director Eran Kolirin (The Band’s Visit, Let It Be Morning) discusses his new film Some Notes on the Current Situation, presented at the Locarno Film Festival—a work blending absurdism, politics, and philosophy in today’s turbulent world.
