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The price of success: rethinking South Korea’s celebrity culture
(5 minutes) After a spate of celebrity suicides, Hanseul Lee thinks it’s time for South Koreans to stop idolising, and then demonising, their K-pop and cinema stars.
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Religious freedom, a risk we must take
(6 minutes) Joshua Gilbert is alarmed by the growth of religious nationalism in the United States.
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The right to education – but for who?
(6 minutes) Education must truly be open to all, argues Julia Wdowin, and not just a way for the favoured to maintain their privileges.
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A crisis of confidence: what future for the West?
(8 minutes) Seeing the Western world’s Christian heritage as ‘unwanted baggage’ only puts at risk our future, argues Toby Lees.
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“To give in to pessimism … is to give up thinking”
(6 minutes) Society can be transformed by ‘a revolution of care’, more truth in public life, persevering hope and a greater appreciation of nuance, argues the Catalan philosopher Jaime Nubiola.
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Imagining peace: thoughts on the Good Friday Agreement, 25 years on
(8 minutes) Monica Sharp celebrates the 25th anniversary of the “Good Friday” Agreement, a ground-breaking treaty ending years of violence in Northern Ireland, which came into law on 2 December 1999.
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A death observed
(3 minutes) As the UK parliament debates a proposal which seeks to legalise euthanasia, Ronnie Convery chronicles the death, both ordinary and extraordinary, of a simple Glaswegian woman.
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The Privatisation of Death
(8 minutes) Campaigners for the legalisation of assisted suicide argue that the choice to end one’s life is ultimately a personal decision. But is the choice to die ever just personal? asks Joseph Evans.
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What hope for peace in the Middle East?
(7 minutes) Firas Modad argues that the religious underpinning of Jewish and Muslim positions in the current conflict in Palestine and Lebanon makes peace a very distant prospect. But still there is hope.
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When the right to die becomes a duty to die
(5 minutes) Allowing assisted suicide will pressurise many suffering and disabled people to end their lives, argues Mary Ann Macdonald.
