Psychedelic philosophy
Professor Justin Smith-Ruiu on how magic mushrooms gave him a deeper understanding of ideas he’d studied for decades
Ideas
Surviving the Third Information Crisis
Writer Naomi Alderman gives us tips and tricks on how to stay sane in a maddening world
A dangerous calculation
Effective altruism has suffered a blow, but the extreme ideas surrounding it have infiltrated some of our most powerful organisations
Book review: Fluke by Brian Klaas
How caprices of fate govern not just our own lives, but the course of nations
Book review: Think by Svend Brinkmann
What should we do if thought quality, like air quality, is in crisis?
Wrong side of history?
Why the internet’s favourite moral argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
The philosophy of the death penalty
The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society
Dinosaur dreams and nightmares
A newly excavated sea monster gets Samira Ahmed thinking about our fascination with dinosaurs and our fear of extinction
The paralysing pessimism of Critical Race Theory
The belief that racism is ineradicable has inevitably shaped the character of antiracism today
Reality is dead, long live reason
Philosopher Hilary Lawson proposes that we accept, once and for all, that reality is unknowable.