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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.

Accra: The Metabolism of Health and Heat

To understand Accra’s ecological metabolism is to trace the flow of water, air, and humanity through a rapidly shifting coastal topography. Positioned on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana’s capital is a delta city grappling with the intersecting forces of breakneck urbanisation, compound flooding, and a warming equatorial climate.

A Gathering Storm for Global Freedom: Democracy Under Threat

For many of us these these concerning times as it seems democratic norms and values are under increasing threat. The data bears this out...

Henry David Thoreau and the American Transcendental Vision

Thoreau was an early influence on my thinking and as a teenager I fell in love with his prose, philosophy and the Romantic Transcendentalist...

From Inequality to Equity: A Roadmap for Gender Justice

This is regrettably still a massive issue and after 67 years on the planet I am astounded that we still haven't got gender justice...

The Universal Struggle: Human Rights in a Fractured World

Human rights face an existential crisis in 2025. Despite 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that "all human beings are...

The Human Blueprint: What the World Values in an Age of Upheaval

Listen to the main concepts in this article in our Deep Dive. The Data-Driven Map of Human Values: From Survival to Self-Expression What does it...

Pacifism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Introduction Pacifism, the principled opposition to war and violence as means of settling disputes, has emerged as one of the most significant moral and political...

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