The Paragraph

Original essays, literary criticism, and illustrated reflections on society and everyday life.

Series & conversations

Recurring ways of reading, questioning and returning to an idea.

The Other Side

The strongest objection deserves more than a footnote. Arguments tested against their most serious critics.

Begin with The Duty to Listen—and the Duty to Decide.

Ordinary Ethics

The moral questions inside queues, favours, apologies and small exercises of power.

Begin with When Does Kindness Become Favouritism?.

Between Two Worlds

Language, memory and belonging: familiar places seen from a changed position.

Begin with The Station That Did Not Move.

A Passage Worth Keeping

A short passage, read closely: what the words do, and what they leave unsettled.

Begin with Mercy and the Person Who Can Refuse It.

The Unfinished Question

Difficult questions explored without forcing them into reassuring conclusions.

Begin with Can Fairness Survive Without Forgiveness?.

Letters to the Editor

A place for thoughtful disagreement, questions and responses. Read the invitation and send a letter.

Who Gets Heard?

Follow one question through an essay, an objection, a court decision, a classic text and a drawing.

Keep a little room for longer thinking

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