Rethink

Historian Ferguson asks how the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged progress

Author Westover argues that education, rather than wealth, is now the greatest divide.

Historian MacMillan explains how our interdependence is essential to our condition.

Musician Cocker asks if the chirrup of the Hen Harrier will be enough to awake in us a new consciousness of our duty as stewards of the Earth

Brenda Hale asks what it means in the year 2020 to get a fair hearing.

The historian Peter Hennessy asks what we might learn from the experience of another hinge moment: 1945, when an exhausted but victorious Britain launched a new social contract.

Stirling Prize-winning architect Levete talks about reconciling technology with nature and a public architecture which prioritises wellbeing over efficiency.

Writer Hanif explores the role of intimacy in different human cultures.

Pope Francis explains why he sees Covid-19 as a potential turning point in history. Taken from a longer interview with Austen Ivereigh and read by Joseph Balderrama. Photo credit: Reuters.

How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. Leading thinkers from across the globe give us their route maps to a better tomorrow.