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Photo of a sunny cobblestone street with colourful buildings, a red car, people walking on the sidewalk and a man on a yellow building’s balcony.

Fairness and equality

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What is a minimally good life and are you prepared to live it?

Would you be willing to swap your life with that of the least fortunate person in your society? A philosophical test for justice

by Nicole Hassoun

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Stories and literature

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The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus

In Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina, the plague isn’t a biological virus, it doesn’t cause lockdowns, but it is killing us

by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Abstract painting with geometric shapes in red, orange and pink hues, with black lines and shapes forming a cubist design.

Anger

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How to be angry

Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems

by Ryan Martin

Painting of Black people in bright clothing picking cotton in a field, surrounded by white cotton plants with green leaves.

Artists and art history

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Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?

Directed by Taylor Rees

Medieval painting of a person in stocks, a figure holding a basket of eggs throwing eggs at them, and another holding a horn-like instrument.

Human rights and justice

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The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity

Humiliation requires a complicit audience. To become truly ‘decent societies’, we need to educate people against joining in

by Ute Frevert

Group of boys looking up, with one in focus and several others blurred in the background. The scene is outdoors.

Gender

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Talk of toxic masculinity puts the blame in all the wrong places

Toxic masculinity discourse harms vulnerable boys and men and distracts society from the true sources of gender inequity

by Heidi Matthews

A bathroom scene featuring a metal toilet roll dispenser with a partially unrolled toilet paper, mounted on a tiled wall.

Human rights and justice

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Public toilets are vanishing and that’s a civic catastrophe

New research shows it is a nightmare for all of us, but especially for people with health issues and marginalised groups

by Guido Corradi

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Civic life

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Ralph Waldo Emerson would really hate your Twitter feed

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism

by Peter Wirzbicki