What makes art truly great? What gives it the power to move us, to linger in our minds long after we’ve seen it? There’s something universal in the way we respond to beauty, to grand vistas, and mystery. Something that…
In a world threatened by ecological collapse and corporate domination, Solarpunk offers an alternative vision for the future —one of resilience, cooperation, and harmony with nature. It is a genre that moves beyond dystopian cynicism, towards the ideals of the…
The future has never seemed closer, yet we’re still struggling to find our place in it. It’s no surprise, then, that many of us are turning back to the cyberpunk genre. Its’ a world of hackers, rebels, and misfits, in…
I’ve been working on a series of new podcast-style interviews. The interviews include thinkers, writers, and artists who I find interesting. They have something important to say about the world we are living in today. The first episode features Paddy…
Australia has proposed banning social media for children under the age of 16, with penalties for tech companies that don’t comply. Backlash against this idea has centered on the problem of enforcing age verification, which would affect all users, not…
Sunset in Rome in February. Warm enough to sit in a t-shirt on the stone steps facing L’Altare Della Patria. I strip off my jacket and I let it crumple to the stone steps below me. A couple walks by…
The Café Fleury is covered in scaffolding by mid-summer, caused by the building works happening on the upper levels. White sheets are draped over the scaffolding, and it looked like a haunted house. There were three couples on the tables…
Saturday morning starts early in Berlin, where everyone is already out enjoying their breakfast. In Germany, they use breakfast as a verb. They breakfast their croissants, with waffles and cream. Next to us sit a table of three, breakfasting some…
I took the morning train down to Starnberg and immediately exited the station onto a stunning view of the lake, stretching as far as the eye could see, towards the distant mountains. Seagulls squawked in squadrons down by the shoreline,…
Elif Batuman has become something of a cult figure in certain social circles. A writer who, retrospectively, went back and wrote one of the greatest college novels of all time, a coming-of-age story equal parts philosophy and literature, based loosely…