Was everything pre-determined from the Big Bang? | George Ellis on free will

Why Buddhists think you (and the world) don't really exist | Jess Frazier

Will open borders lead us to utopia or social ruin? | James Orr, Michael Ignatieff, Gillian Tett

Why A.I. isn't as intelligent as it appears | Simon Baron-Cohen

How education was sold off to the private sector | Guy Standing

The internet needs to be rebuilt | Cory Doctorow on Big Tech and Trump's tariffs

Why the rest of the world is suspicious of Western democracy | Mahbubani, Ignatieff, Laruelle

Is time real? | Ivette Fuentes, Tim Maudlin, Wahida Khandker, Hilary Lawson

Why gravity is changing our understanding of fundamental physics | Claudia de Rham

History shows that human progress is a myth | John Gray, Jonny Thomson

The Nuremberg trials and capturing Pinochet | Philippe Sands on international law

To the ends of the Earth | Erling Kagge on polar bears, inner peace, and difficult fathers

What neuroscience reveals about free will and psychopaths | Sam Harris, Roger Penrose, Sophie Scott

Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? | Christopher Steele

Why the West is running a smear campaign against China | Kishore Mahbubani

Are the US and Europe becoming enemies? | Gillian Tett, Jeremy Corbyn, Michael Ignatieff

We need to change how we view autism | Simon Baron-Cohen

Why Malcolm X is as relevant today as ever | Kehinde Andrews

Can we ever separate language and thought? | Steven Pinker, Barbara Tversky, Hilary Lawson

How memory treats life like a movie | Charan Ranganath

The James Webb Telescope is making cosmologists question the Big Bang | Bjørn Ekeberg

Science and the unknowable universe | Avshalom Elitzur and Lera Boroditsky

Alain de Botton on love, perversion and suffering

The medicalisation of sadness is making us ill | Joanna Moncrieff, Sarah Wilson, Anna Lembke

What the Buddha can teach us about the mind-body problem | Zizek, Chadha, Faggin, Nida-Rümelin

How has consciousness shaped evolution? | Eva Jablonka

The cost of living crisis shows that economists are out of touch with reality | Cahal Moran

Roger Penrose and Brian Cox on the Big Bang, the multiverse and physics' greatest lesson | Q&A

How the language you speak changes how you see the world | Lera Boroditsky

Why extraordinary claims still require extraordinary evidence | Michael Shermer

Physicists debate unsettling discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope | Ellis, de Rham, Ekeberg

The West has sleepwalked into its downfall | Kishore Mahbubani

“The line between imagination and reality isn't very solid” | Nadine Dijkstra

Why AI's energy needs are not the real catastrophe | Sheila Jasanoff, Erik Swyngedouw, Paul Stein

Why didn't Trump's tariffs tank the US economy? | Glasman, Johnson, Shaheen, Powell

How Stoicism can help us through the chaos of modern politics | Massimo Pigliucci

Why A.I. will never be able to do what the brain does | Iain McGilchrist

How spreading disease became a profitable business | Catherine Liu, Tim Jackson, David Goodhart

Is it possible to have an original thought? | Victoria Trumbull, Tony Sampson, Sylvie Delacroix

How consciousness evolved - and why AI can't have it | Sabine Hossenfelder, Nick Lane, Yoshua Bengio

Why Western nations are embracing authoritarian ideology | Curtis Yarvin, Yascha Mounk, Minna Salami

The ancient Athenian idea that may save democracy | Hélène Landemore

Why there's no such thing as knowledge | Slavoj Žižek and Hilary Lawson

Ivette Fuentes on quantum entanglement and black holes

The A.I. job apocalypse is closer than you think | Aaron Bastani and Zoltan Istvan

Why Liberalism failed | Maurice Glasman and Sohrab Ahmar

Alien science would be very different to Earth science | Ideas For Our Time

Can cosmologists be religious? | Phil Halper, Priya Natarajan, Joseph Silk

What Venus Flytraps, ChatGPT, and LSD reveal about consciousness | Michael Pollan

Is there an objective reality? | Hilary Lawson, Jess Frazier, Graham Priest

Why are Big Tech allowed to steal artists' work? | Yanis Varoufakis, Tim Nguyen, Janne Teller

The rise and fall of Woke ideology | Eric Kaufmann

You've been lied to about mental health | Joanna Moncrieff

What evolutionary role does consciousness play? | Denis Noble, Stuart Hameroff, Antonella Tramacere

Why we struggle to love ourselves and others | Alain de Botton on the psychology of love

How wealth inequality undermines democracy | Yaron Brook, Ingrid Robeyns, Thangam Debbonaire

Will we need scientists in the AI age? | Roman Yampolskiy, Suzanne Livingston, Steve Fuller

Social media is not responsible for your lack of attention span | Bence Nanay

Roger Penrose and Brian Cox discuss 'remarkable new evidence' about the origins of the universe

What Liberalism got wrong | John Gray on the failures of the Enlightenment