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  • Incandescent anger

    Incandescent anger
    Dec 23 2025
    Politics today is driven by grievances that can never be assuaged. For democracy’s survival, we must grapple with this dynamic.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    25 Min.
  • Are doctors replaceable?

    Are doctors replaceable?
    Dec 22 2025
    Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    24 Min.
  • Philosopher of pride

    Philosopher of pride
    Dec 19 2025
    For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    20 Min.
  • Long live the aeonophiles!

    Long live the aeonophiles!
    Dec 18 2025
    The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    20 Min.
  • A life of joy and work

    A life of joy and work
    Dec 16 2025
    I am banned from working now, but as I look back on my long, challenging career in Afghanistan I feel hope for the future.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    34 Min.
  • Green dominion

    Green dominion
    Dec 15 2025
    Coursing through Catholicism is a radical tradition of environmental justice that will help combat the climate crisis.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    26 Min.
  • Undefinable yet indispensable

    Undefinable yet indispensable
    Dec 12 2025
    Despite centuries of trying, the term ‘religion’ has proven impossible to define. Then why does it remain so necessary?.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    24 Min.
  • Can machines suffer?

    Can machines suffer?
    Dec 11 2025
    We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake.

    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.

    Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.
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    25 Min.