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

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what you owe the parents of the child yours is involved with. My 15-year-old son ...

On the other hand, my former student is highly responsible, and I trust her to make complex decisions. And while egg donation ...

A few years ago, a close cisgender male friend in a heterosexual marriage began identifying as queer. All of his romantic experiences have been with women. Through therapy, however, he concluded that ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah I was in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship for four years. In the decade since I escaped my abusive partner, I’ve largely moved on with my life and am in ...

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 My son is a senior in college. His best friend and roommate for the last four years recently took something from him that was in a hiding place no one knew about except for ...

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 ...

Advice on life’s trickiest situations and moral dilemmas from the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. SUBSCRIBER-ONLY NEWSLETTER Advice on life’s trickiest situations and moral dilemmas from the ...

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 ...