Ideas that move us forward

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MORALITY·PLANET

August 19, 2026

Julia Shaw: Why do clever people destroy the planet?

The best-selling criminal psychologist and science writer on why smart people are so good at talking themselves out of feeling guilty.

CEO of Compassion In World Farming, Phillip Lymbery

PLANET·POWER

June 11, 2026

Phillip Lymbery: Those who profit from factory farming prefer us as consumers to stay in the dark

The CEO of Compassion in World Farming on why factory farming is destroying the land, sea and our health and why the solutions are simpler than anyone in power wants you to

Cressida Cowell: Dragon riding represents humanity’s attempt to control the wild

The How to Train Your Dragon author on why despair stops us

Bethany Handley: I soon found myself padlocked out of the countryside

The author, poet and disability activist on the barriers keeping millions out

Phoebe Smith: Nature has saved my life – more than once

The adventurer, author and outdoor advocate on growing up shut out of wild places, the night under the stars that changed everything, and why

May 3, 2025

EDUCATION·PLANET

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: What does “better” really mean – and for whom? Who defines it?

The UK artist on why “progress” isn’t always progress, why art shouldn’t pretend to have all the answers, and why we need to stop

April 25, 2025

CREATIVITY·EDUCATION·PLANET

Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press: AI is disembodying language – but it is still of us

The British artist on conflict, control, the false clarity of the picturesque – and why all art is a form of activism.

April 24, 2025

CREATIVITY·PLANET·POWER

Miranda Cowley Heller:: We have this terrible need to own everything

The Paper Palace author on disappearing wildness, rising skittishness about the outdoors, and a culture more comfortable scrolling than stepping outside.

April 23, 2025

MORALITY·PLANET