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Join leading thinkers from every field of modern thought as they unpack their groundbreaking ideas in solo talks this HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2026.
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The Great Political Rupture
James Cleverly, Maurice Glasman
Evolution Beyond Genes
Eva Jablonka
Pride and Prognosis
Charlotte Blease
The Return of Malcom X
Kehinde Andrews
Pragmatism and The Pursuit of Truth
Cheryl Misak, David Edmonds
Rethinking the Global Orthodoxy
John Ralston Saul
When Compassion Turns Dangerous
Kathleen Stock, Mary Ann Sieghart
The God Debate
Rowan Williams, Michael Shermer
The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom
David Wengrow
The James Webb Telescope's Threat to the Big Bang
Bjørn Ekeberg
Immunity and Impunity in a Lawless World
Philippe Sands
Overcoming Inequality
Paul Johnson
Consciousness Is Biology's Biggest Blunder
Denis Noble
Disloyalty Is Not Betrayal
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Liberalism's Fight for Survival
Michael Ignatieff
Rebalancing the Global Order
Kishore Mahbubani
Consciousness, Panpsychism, and Quantum Information
Federico Faggin
The Hidden Philosophy of Food
Julian Baggini
Memories Are Not Stored in the Brain
Victoria Trumbull
Education Has Lost Its Way
Guy Standing
The Life and Philosophy of Stephen Hawking
George Ellis, Shini Somara, Bernard Carr
Buddhism and the Emptiness of Reality
Jessica Frazier
Selfhood Is a Grand Illusion
Monima Chadha
The Hallucination We Call Reality
Karl Friston, Hilary Lawson
Marx, Williams, and the Climate Crisis
John Merrick
Reality Doesn't Care What You Think
Michael Shermer
Free Will Is Real
George Ellis
Physics Has Misunderstood Time
Avshalom Elitzur
You Are Not Your Brain: Grasping the Unique Nature of Conscious Beings
Martine Nida-Rümelin