The origins of Indians
Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture
The prophet in your pocket
Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move
Children Are Apprentices of Life
When Lisa first came for help, she seemed almost hollowed out by anxiety. She urgently wanted to fin…
Flickering Enlightenment
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique
The no-human future
It appears in national security reports and tech-industry speeches, in the online manifestos of terr…
A philosophy of home
Political Philosophy Rarely Comes Home Political philosophy is an ancient discipline. We usually tra…
Beneath Our Human Shallows
After the Aral Sea Vanished, the Deep Earth Moved Too In the 1960s, when Soviet engineers began resh…
Rights Are Not Slogans. Rights Need Budgets
The Fiscal Truth on a Single Road On Limuru Road in Nairobi, a matatu rushes past me before I can ev…
Mathematics Is Not a Lamp We Made, but a Light We Discovered
Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention
We Need a More Boring Conversation About Immigration
Why a Polarised Debate Keeps Us from Seeing Immigration Clearly Over the past few decades, the share…