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The Price of Admission: Toxic Masculinity, the Evidence Behind the Phrase, and What it Would Take to Build Something Better

Toxic masculinity has become a slogan, an insult and a tripwire. This Dossier strips the phrase back to its evidence: which norms harm, who pays, and why condemnation alone cannot compete with the grievance machine.

Who Owns the Night? The Risks of Selling Sunlight After Dark

Can orbiting mirrors sell sunlight after dark? Investigating Reflect Orbital’s plans and the risks to wildlife, climate, astronomy and the night sky.

Give What You Command: Christianity and the Love that is Ordered

Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift

What Is Owed: Judaism, Islam and the Debt of Kindness

In 1943 a Muslim family in the Albanian mountains hid a Jewish family from the German army, and the whole neighbourhood knew. The code they kept took no interest in what they felt. Judaism and Islam build kindness the same way: as a debt, owed before it is felt, and tested at its edge.

Singapore: Engineered Nature in a Tropical City-State

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 4 Singapore has spent sixty years turning a cleared island into a green city, and the results are, in many...

Paris, or the Hard Work of a Breathing City

Green Cities Series | Article 02 How the French capital turned against the car, rewrote its streets, and discovered that a green city is not...

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The City Must Breathe An introduction to the Green Cities series: what we mean, how we will judge, and why the urban future is now...

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