Collect $200.” Right when we first started playing the game together, I removed that card from the set. I did so because it ...

We don’t live together, but we spend most of our time together, functioning like a married couple. I’m employed in a ...

Beyond that? I get your anger, but the way to fix a flawed system is through democratic reform, not some individual act of ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who deserves preferential access to a public good.

I’ve recently heard some sharp comments from friends about male authors publishing books under female names. The pseudonyms ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah My husband of 52 years was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 10 years ago. Currently I am a full-time caregiver. I hope to place my husband in a memory-care facility ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what parents owe to other parents. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My 15-year-old son recently started dating a girl his age. Her family immigrated to the United ...

This year’s BBC Reith Lecturer is Kwame Anthony Appiah, a British-born, Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist. Appiah specialises in moral and political philosophy ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah Although I’ve always wanted children, I didn’t meet my husband until I was 40. I had frozen my eggs, but when I tried to use them, it didn’t work out. After three ...

Journalist, Sonia Sodha reflects on the first of Kwame Anthony Appiah's Reith Lectures. Ask anyone what it means to be religious and you’re likely to get some sort of variation on “believing ...

During the Cold War it was used to contrast the two sides of the Iron Curtain. Kwame Anthony Appiah explores the confusion of using the term. Later it became a way of distinguishing between the ...

Appiah starts his lecture with the story of a five-year-old African boy from Ghana, who in 1707 travelled thousands of miles across continents to join the household of a European duke at the centr ...