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From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: one of Britain’s most influential scholars has spent a lifetime trying to convince people to take race and racism seriously. Are we finally ready to listen? By Yohann Koshy. Read by Dermot Daly. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I w…

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  Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

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  From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?

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  A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

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  Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousne…

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  From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that …

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  What technology takes from us – and how to take it back

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  The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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  From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?

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  Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

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  Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire cul…

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  From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis

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  ‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2

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  Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates…

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  From the archive: The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti pro…

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  We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we …