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Marriage should not come with any social benefits or privileges | Aeon Ideas
People born intersex have a right to genital integrity | Aeon Essays
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Voluntary taxation: a lesson from the Ancient Greeks | Aeon Ideas
We could all do with learning how to improvise a little better | Aeon Ideas
How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day | Aeon Essays
How politeness became a tool of radical democratic politics | Aeon Essays
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Buddhism can be as violent as any other religion | Aeon Essays
What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot) | Aeon Essays
News has never been pristine, always entangled in time | Aeon Essays
Only governments can safeguard the openness of the internet | Aeon Ideas
When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike | Aeon Ideas
How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer | Aeon Ideas
The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines | Aeon Ideas
The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been | Aeon Essays
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What really happens in Schrödinger’s box? | Aeon Essays
Remote control of the brain is coming: how will we use it? | Aeon Ideas
Revisiting the American Dream in the cold light of today | Aeon Essays
Why it’s high time that attitudes to addiction changed | Aeon Essays
How self-harm provokes the brain into feeling better | Aeon Essays
We need ecstasy and cocaine in place of Prozac and Xanax | Aeon Ideas
It is time for love to become a radical force in politics | Aeon Essays
How the Frankfurt School diagnosed the ills of Western civilisation | Aeon Essays
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How much does evolution depend on chance? | Aeon Essays
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Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | Aeon Ideas
How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays
Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities | Aeon Ideas
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