Essay/Cognition & Intelligence How totalism works The brainwashing methods of isolation, engulfment and fear can lead anyone to a cult. I should know – I was in one Alexandra Stein
Video/Gender & Sexuality How a once overlooked civil-rights leader became an icon of gay marriage equality 16 minutes
Video/Law & Justice The farmer turned human rights activist who breaks France’s laws to defend its values 25 minutes
Essay/Human Rights Caste lives on, and on Indian society deludes itself that caste discrimination is a thing of the past, yet it suffuses the nation, top to bottom Prayaag Akbar
Video/Law & Justice ‘Continuously, silently screaming’ – the profound agony of solitary confinement 5 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Ethics Are human rights anything more than legal conventions? John Tasioulas
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Medical Ethics Intersex rights Children born with in-between sex development are subject to surgeries that many believe violate their human rights Alice Dreger
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History A nation apologises for wrongdoing: is that a category mistake? Danielle Celermajer
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Politics & Government When nations apologise National apologies are a big deal: they acknowledge the past to help move everyone forward. No wonder they’re so hard Edwin Battistella
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Human Rights What do slaveholders think? It is everywhere illegal yet slavery persists in many corners of the global economy. How do its beneficiaries justify it? Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Essay/Progress & Modernity Is greatness finite? The world feels caught between infinite possibility and limited resources. Thomas More and T R Malthus can help Joyce E Chaplin
Video/Fairness & Equality How the one-child policy created a Chinese underclass of 13 million people with no rights 15 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/History Atlantic freedoms Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of Revolution Laurent Dubois
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History In the 1850s, the future of American slavery seemed bright Matthew Karp
Essay/Values & Beliefs Courage and free speech Throughout human history there have been individuals who have been ready to risk everything for their beliefs Timothy Garton Ash
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Law & Justice What kind of citizen was he? Conventional wisdom sees Socrates as a martyr for free speech, but he accepted his death sentence for a different cause Josiah Ober
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Law & Justice How US prisons violate three principles of criminal justice Judith Lichtenberg
Essay/Education In praise of Dewey He knew how to protect democracy – not by rote and rules but by growing independent-minded kids. Let us not forget it Nicholas Tampio
ORIGINAL Video/Human Rights Free speech is vital to human flourishing, but it’s in a decade-long slump 5 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/History of Science The sexism problem Harassment drove me out of physics 30 years ago and little has changed. Why is scientific sexism so intractable? Margaret Wertheim
Idea/Law & Justice Decriminalising sex work is better for everyone Maria Laura Di Tommaso & Marina Della Giusta
Essay/War & Conflict In praise of patience Resilience is the fashionable prescription for trauma. But bouncing back is not the only – or best – way to bear sorrow Samira Thomas
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Neuroscience Bring them back Untold thousands of patients misdiagnosed as vegetative are actually aware. Theirs is the civil rights fight of our times Joseph J Fins