Speaker
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Melanie Challenger
Author of How to Be Animal: a new history of what it means to be human
Melanie Challenger is a writer and broadcaster on environmental history, philosophy of biology, and bioethics. She is Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and a Vice President of the RSPCA. She hosts the podcast The Psychosphere on agency and intelligence in nature.

Melanie Challenger is a writer and broadcaster on environmental history, philosophy of biology, and bioethics. She is Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and a Vice President of the RSPCA. She hosts the podcast The Psychosphere on agency and intelligence in nature.
Melanie Challenger Videos

Humans and other animals
The hypocrisy of the way we treat animals

The oldest gods
Should we return to the gods of nature?

How to be an animal
Animal sentience and ethical decision-making

Technological parenting
The new age of parenthood
Melanie Challenger Articles
More Videos

In Defense of Pornography
What kind of porn could be ok?

Against Meritocracy
Kwame Anthony Appiah | Merit is a mask of class

Rethinking Feminism
Is there a universal goal for women's rights?

Women and Conquest
Is modern sexual culture liberating?

The World After Men
Should we pursue matriarchy?

Sisters and the Sisterhood
Can elite women help all women?

Witches, Sluts, Feminists
Kristen Sollee | A History of Witch Feminism

Return to Radical Feminism
Finn Mackay | Has current feminism lost its way?

The Story of Romance
Do we need a new narrative for love?

A Politics of Hope
Where are the alternatives to injustice?

Equality and Difference
Should equality be applied to all aspects of life?

After Feminism
The traumatic force of feminism | Griselda Pollock

Beyond Men and Women
Should we fight prejudice or gender?

Equal Is Unfair
Inequality is not the foe | Yaron Brook

Victims and Conquerors
Prostitutes or clients, who holds the power?

Forbidden Fantasies
Is sexual desire dangerous?

The Self and the Selfie
Can focusing on oneself bring about happiness?

Greater Than Equal
Is equality of opportunity a misguided goal that legitimises inequality?

Real Men
Is the real man a fantasy?

Selling Ourselves
The body as a commodity

Dreams of Equality
What does mainstream feminism promise?

Dream Hoarders
Is the middle class to blame for inequality?

The Oldest Profession
Niki Adams | Should we decriminalise sex work?

When Women Rule
Do women make better leaders?

After Equality
Where is feminism going?

The Devil's Parties

Where Women Rule
The age of anti-patriarchy

Politics and the Patriarchy
Does Westminster still have a problem with women?

What's Right Anymore?

After Equality
Where is feminism going?

Drug Culture

How We Came to #MeToo
Linda Woodhead | The origins of sexual accusations

A Woman's World
Margaret Heffernan | On radical feminist futures

The Crisis of Masculinity
Can socialism and feminism help redefine manhood?

Exotic England: Europe's Most Promiscuous Tribe
People's promiscuity in multicultural England

Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain

Dangerous Images
Acclaimed photographer Adrian Arbib uncovers the moment art and journalism clash with the law.

Who We Are: Beyond Black and White
Can we have a world where race does not matter?

Myths About Feminism
Why real feminism isn’t about women ruling the world.

How to Thrive in a Digital Age

The Sweetest Taboo

Democracy and Drugs
Should we legalise psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness?

Romancing Opiates
Theodore Dalrymple offer his personal take on the problems poppies pose

Visions of Disaster and Perfection

Women on Top
Gender equality and positions of power

The Sexualisation of Society
Diane Abbott | Do we think about sex too much?

The Skin We're In
Selling the body versus selling the mind

The End of Equality
Why the age of equality is a myth

Rationality and Drugs
Why our current policy to drugs is nonsense

More Than Equal
More Articles

How education embedded inequality

How liberals left liberty behind

We can’t tame big tech

The legacy of Charles Mills
Can the state know what's best?

Why taking offence is good

The power of utopia

The power of apocalypse

The future of male identity

Buy stuff, end capitalism?

Defending freedom will be the downfall of the US

We shouldn't fear genetic differences

In defence of hierarchy

The family's threat to justice

The dangers of Davos and the global social contract

Democracy and the polarization trap

The political power of your body

The Ethics of Online Communication

Beyond envy's dark side

Ukraine alone won't save democracy

The most important book Marx never wrote

We must imitate Zelensky, not just admire him

Political labels are a farce

The philosophers behind Putin

Ukraine is not about territory, it's about identity
Liberal democracies can't solve climate change

How Macron polarized politics, and won

Prosecuting war crimes is not the answer

Fundamental rights and the limits of democracy

Musk's town square will be chaos