Schools brief
Softening the blow
Climate adaptation policies are needed more than ever
People are already suffering from catastrophic losses as a result of extreme weather events like cyclone Amphan
Not-so-slow burn
The world’s energy system must be transformed completely
It has been changed before, but never as fast or fully as must happen now
Bad times
Damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising
It will go far beyond drought, melting ice sheets and crop failures
Where nature ends
Humanity’s immense impact on Earth’s climate and carbon cycle
Much needs to be done for the damage to be reversed
Projections of the future
How modelling articulates the science of climate change
From paper and pencil to the world’s fastest computers
The problematic politics of climate change
Why tackling global warming is a challenge without precedent
The first of six weekly briefs looks at the history of efforts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions
Rousseau, Marx and Nietzsche
The prophets of illiberal progress
Terrible things have been done in their name
Rawls rules
Three post-war liberals strove to establish the meaning of freedom
Berlin, Rawls and Nozick put their faith in the sanctity of the individual
The exiles fight back
Hayek, Popper and Schumpeter formulated a response to tyranny
Their lives and reputations diverged, but their ideas were rooted in the traumas of their shared birthplace
Freedom v economics
Was John Maynard Keynes a liberal?
People should be free to choose. It was their freedom not to choose that troubled him
Liberal thinkers
De Tocqueville and the French exception
The gloomiest of the great liberals worried that democracy might not be compatible with liberty
The father of liberalism
Against the tyranny of the majority
John Stuart Mill's warning still resonates today