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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 ...

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By Kwame Anthony Appiah My best friend and I grew up in moderate-conservative households. While I became more progressive as I aged, she grew more conservative. In the past, we were able to have ...

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 ...

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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 ...

By contrast, she thinks that you’ll be worse off without them and that praying for you is her duty," Kwame Anthony Appiah wrote. Appiah also told the reader they are not entitled to ask the ...