Ideas meet the present.
Thinkers from East and West.
Questions of life, power and freedom.
The Thoughts brings thinkers and political writers into imagined conversations about the present, drawing on the works they left behind.
Conversations
We put today’s questions to a thinker’s ideas, exploring both their force and their limits.
Symposia
Different traditions meet around one question. Disagreement remains part of the discussion.
Imagined essays
Editorial reconstructions explore how a thinker’s ideas might engage with our lives today.