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Paul Bloom: The pleasures of suffering

People are hedonists, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. So why do we have an appetite for spicy foods, hot baths, and BDSM?

Angela Nagle: Kill all normies

The heated culture wars of the 1990s are back – the modern battle ground is the internet.

Zeynep Tufekci and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Privacy is over

Privacy is selfish – which is why its days as a personal privilege are numbered.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Everybody lies (except the internet)

If the age of the internet has taught us anything, it is that there is a big difference between appearance and reality.

Rukmini Callimachi: On ISIS

What was it like to give a voice to ISIS?

Ayelet Waldman: LSD forbidden medicine

What is a former public defender and law professor doing taking LSD?

Zhao Hai, Linda Jacobson, Adam Ni: Choose China

Is it time to stop sitting on the fence and choose China?

Haris Aziz, Khandis Blake, Rob Brooks, Lee Rollins and Martina Stenzel: Fight the fear

What we don’t understand often looks dangerous, and the barriers of our own anxieties are hard to get over.

Tim Costello: Ordinary people can change the course of history

2019 Gandhi Oration | A message of hope from World Vision's Chief Advocate, Tim Costello.

Germaine Greer, Ayelet Waldman and Megan Phelps-Roper: Too Dangerous

Are there some ideas which are too dangerous to discuss?

Darren Goodsir, Dee Madigan, Rebecca Huntley and John Hewson: Cancer on democracy

Will the media be the death of our democracy?

Chuck Klosterman: What if we're wrong?

Chuck Klosterman says the history of ideas is the history of people getting things wrong.

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