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Should deaf parents be able to select for a deaf child? On the ethics of parental choice and ‘designer babies’

- by Aeon Video

Watch on Aeon

Renaissance artists paid uncommon attention to Jesus’ nether regions. What does this breach in modesty reveal about art?

- by Sam Dresser

Read on Psyche

Some people watch history pass by. Others high in ‘historical consciousness’ truly live it – and seem to benefit as a result

- by Şebnem Ture

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One woman's husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.

The post Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.

Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far?

- by Jeff Sebo & Andreas L Mogensen

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The right to protest, the right to free speech, and the right to be heard are absolutely essential in any democratic society. That’s why these rights are clearly enshrined in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. The history of Britain is itself one of protest, protests that […]

In 1979, the cultural theorist Stuart Hall wrote with reference to Britain’s impending shift to the Right that political restructuring doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Rather, he argued, ‘[I]t works on the ground of already constituted social practices and lived ideologies … it wins space by constantly drawing on these elements which have secured over time […]

By late summer 2025, it had all become too much for Bono. Something had changed. On 10 August — the morning that Israeli air strikes killed five Al Jazeera journalists and one freelance colleague in Gaza while extreme food deprivation was becoming widespread — the official U2 website was updated with four separate statements. Each […]

This autumn’s conference season seemed to shift the standing of most parties by less than the margin of error. Reform maintained its consistent lead over Labour, the Conservatives continued to struggle in third place, and the Liberal Democrats remained in their small-to-medium-sized comfort zone. In a notable exception to the rule, there was new impetus […]

Ever get an uncomfortable feeling that the state is closing in on you? Even if you’re not one of the almost 3,000 people arrested on possible terrorism charges for demonstrating peacefully in favour of peace and against genocide, you may be among the increasing number of those on the left who have a sense that […]

For as long as socialism has existed in Britain, it has been defined by disagreements over the role of the state. From the early days of the Labour Party, through the post-war settlement and the rise of neoliberalism, socialists have debated whether the capitalist state could ever be used to build socialism. The issue has […]

On my regular commute from Liverpool Central train station to the University of Liverpool, I pass several physical reminders of the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement (MWLM). Walking up Bold Street, I see that the News from Nowhere radical bookshop still stands on my right, a flourishing non-profit women’s co-operative and long-standing focal point for non-sectarian […]

In the early hours of 29 January 1996, three peace activists cut through the perimeter fence of the Warton Aerodrome of British Aerospace (now bae Systems) in North West England. They proceeded to gain access to military hangar 358, and meticulously damaged the radar and targeting systems, cockpit, nose cone, and metal panels on a […]

The great and lamented urban historian Eric Hazan described the Parisian café as being ‘much more than just a backdrop: it illuminated its denizens’ physique and soul’. To Hazan, there could be no proper understanding of the relationship between his beloved city and its artists and writers without an understanding of that venerated French institution […]

Although it may not sound like it from its (instantly memorable) title, Park Seolyeon’s new novel is a love story. Translated by Anton Hur, Capitalists Must Starve fictionalises the biography of Kang Juryong, whose marriage to Choi Jeonbin leads her first into the fight for Korean liberation from Japanese rule and then into the struggle […]