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A Revolution in Thought? How Hemisphere Theory Helps us Understand the Metacrisis
Carved into the stone of the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi was the injunction to ‘know thyself’. Without such knowledge we are...

Iain McGilchrist
30 min read


Don’t Debase My Desires: Examining the Links Between Adaptive Preference Formation and the Cultivation of Public Emotion
In our society and social theory, there is a fine line between a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’ decision. While society uses moral justifications...

Donari Yahzid
18 min read


Belief in a Myth and Myth as Fact: Towards a More Compassionate Sociology and Society
There exists a fine line that sociologists—and all social scientists—must tread as they try to knit together empirical, objective[1]...

Niamh Hodges
20 min read


Unfiltered, Candid, and Interdisciplinary: Reflections on the ‘Human values and global response in the Covid-19 pandemic’ 2022 Tanner Lectures
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are prestigious gatherings of globally renowned scholars across the humanities and the sciences....

Clare Hall Tanner Lecture Working Group
20 min read


The Task of the Curator in the Era of Reconciliation
Acknowledgements I would like to begin by acknowledging that the land within which I wrote this research paper is Mi’Kma’ki, the...

Caroline DeFrias
36 min read


Bonnie and Clyde, Schopenhauer, and the Paradox and Problem of Innocence
In the 1967 gangster road movie Bonnie and Clyde , the often-horrific events of the real-life story are cut with ingenuous humour and...

Paul Pickering
5 min read


The Many Forms of Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 176 million confirmed cases and over 3.8 million confirmed deaths. These numbers are likely...

Amar Sarkar
25 min read


Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy
The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals...

Nicolas Canal Tinius
15 min read


Re-Examining the Critical Analysis of Indian Society and the Caste System in Swades: We, the People (2004)
For far too long, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades (2004) has maintained its status as an Indian cinema cult classic. It is a film about a...

Richa Kapoor
14 min read


Institutions for the Long Run: Taking Future Generations Seriously in Government
Introduction This article sets out the case for taking future generations seriously through our political institutions. We make three...

Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti
26 min read


The Sacred and the Profane
Fig 1. Sacred and Profane Love (Titian 1514, oil on canvas). Wikimedia Commons. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiziano_-_Amor_S...

Matthew Sargent
10 min read
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