Research

We employ our model of discernment to engage with timely issues in an honest, transparent, and consistent manner that avoids simplistic, incomplete, and misleading conclusions.

We believe a lack of discernment lies at the roots of democratic withering, increasing social inequalities, persistent wars and conflicts, diminishing authentic connectedness with others, ourselves, and nature, and the distracting and overwhelming state we find ourselves in as content consumer.

Knowledge, Truth, and Enquiry

  • The age of information & anxiety

  • Seeking truth & meaning

  • Social resilience & meaningful connectedness

  • Individual equanimity


Politics & Society

  • Reasoning & fallacies

  • Epistemology, truth & power

  • Ideas, ideologies & action

  • Intellectual and political freedom


Societal Wellbeing & Happiness

  • Democratic rights & governance

  • Social erosion & distrust

  • Polarisation & radicalism

  • Algorithmic-driven disconnection

AI Risks & Governance

  • AI culture & development

  • AI ethics & governance

  • AI-generated disconnection, surveillance & control

News, Media & Ethics

  • Concentration of the media

  • Social media & news diffusion

  • Media ethics & good practice

Human Rights

  • Intellectual & political freedoms

  • Discrimination, structural violence & racism

  • Indigenous inclusion, acceptance & appreciation