Mutant: The Democracy Podcast

Mutant’s first episode was an archaeology of democratic anger, and as we publish our 13th, almost midway through the Roman alphabet, we return to...

Few words in our political lexicon are as fragile and as paradoxical as hope. Is hope a privilege of the smug? Or is it...

What does it mean to be human? This is a question at once timeless, yet often posited as an abstraction: as though being human...

Nothing frames our thinking at Mutant — the very name we have given this dictionary of concepts — more fundamentally than the human drive...

“There is nothing mere about symbols”, says the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. And “there is nothing mere about the struggle for architecture, about the strife...

Not only does violence have the capacity to become normative, we also seem to wholly lose our capacity for moral judgement in its wake....