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Illegible benefits

June 30, 2026 5:00am 25 min

The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense...

The measure of flourishing

June 29, 2026 5:00am 23 min

Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us m...

The violence specialists

June 26, 2026 5:00am 19 min

Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sen...

Who are the fire-tamers?

June 25, 2026 5:00am 30 min

From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make s...

No one is self-made

June 22, 2026 5:00am 26 min

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make se...

Trauma creep

June 19, 2026 5:00am 29 min

From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us ...

Words, words, words

June 18, 2026 5:00am 22 min

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make s...

What is this rock?

June 16, 2026 5:02am 17 min

Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ours...

Therapy for billionaires

June 15, 2026 5:00am 31 min

As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sen...

A philosophy of home

June 12, 2026 5:00am 24 min

The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sens...

The no-human future

June 11, 2026 5:00am 42 min

Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sen...

The joy of autism

June 09, 2026 5:00am 20 min

Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make ...

What shape is the Earth?

June 08, 2026 5:00am 21 min

The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us ...

Artist of sympathy and cruelty

May 29, 2026 5:00am 20 min

Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sens...

Flickering Enlightenment

May 28, 2026 5:00am 33 min

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make ...

The embattled witnesses

May 26, 2026 5:00am 26 min

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make ...

Can ecosystems malfunction?

May 25, 2026 5:00am 36 min

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves ...

Being small

May 22, 2026 5:00am 28 min

Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense o...

Make immigration boring

May 21, 2026 5:00am 17 min

The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sen...

Maritime China

May 19, 2026 5:00am 24 min

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make s...

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