Aeon3d
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...
Aeon9d
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...
Aeon2d
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome ...
Aeon3d
What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation
A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...
Aeon4d
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...
Aeon7d
Moral resilience
is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...
Aeon6d
Despite decades of inaction we can avert the climate Hellocene and restore the atmosphere to keep our world habitable
is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He is also chair ...
Aeon12d
In art, the sublime is a feedback loop, evolving with whatever’s next to threaten us
The sublime describes the distinctive mix of awe, fear and serenity one might feel when confronted with imposing immensity. (Think: standing at the foot of a massive mountain.) But, as Sacha Golob, ...