Being small

The embattled witnesses

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 sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Can ecosystems malfunction?

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 and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Being small

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 of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Make immigration boring

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 sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Maritime China

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 sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.