What we owe the future

A new book by philosopher William MacAskill argues that we have a duty to improve the lives of future generations through long term planning and effective altruism.

2025 will be like 2019 – only more so

The international scene has been grim for some time, and there’s little prospect of it improving. Indeed recent trends of authoritarian bluster and democratic decline are set to intensify, plunging the world ever closer to crisis.

The unacknowledged fictions of Yuval Harari

Yuval Noah Harari may be a popular and highly influential writer on the past and future of humanity, but replacing one set of myths with another is no basis for confronting the earth’s existential problems.