Between Reality and Alienation
Memes and reels can help restore the connection between information and external reality, but risk fuelling the self-referentialit…
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Santiago Sierra
The End of the Media
Why a future without news awaits us.
Cross my Influencer’s Palm with Silver
Online influencers with enormous reach are prime candidates for bribery by governments and special interest groups.
From Fake News to French Subsidies: The Global Media Meltdown
All over the world, trust in traditional media is collapsing as alternative outlets come to the fore.
The New Babel
When everyone is a journalist, truth competes with demand—and the market for outrage risks collapsing under its own weight.
Editorial: Video killed the Online Star
YouTube has taken over the media world, outpacing TV and Netflix—and it may spell the end of online news.
Clash of Civilisations: How Family Shapes the Fault Lines of Global Conflict
Family models, not just civilizations, shape global conflicts. From Western individualism to Eastern collectivism, values clash.
Civilisational Schizophrenia
Europe's leaders speak of civilisation, but can no longer agree on what the term actually means.
Editorial: In Search of the Primeval Myth
The West has lost its founding myth—can a new one rise from the rubble, or is the age of civilisation itself ending?
Deliberately Not Quite Western
Latin America is not a failed copy of the West: it is a civilisation in its own right, though misread, misgoverned, and misaligned…
World Order Through China’s Eyes
Beijing’s Global Civilisation Initiative is rewriting the playbook for how soft power is applied.
The West and Vico’s Cycles
Western civilisation faces cultural fragmentation. Vico’s cyclical theory might explain its current decline.
Editorial: Nothing Ever Happens…Until It Does
Civil unrest simmers, but the real collapse may come quietly—when managed chaos slips beyond control.
Warrior Cops and Civil War in a Surveilled Europe
Backed by a modern-day surveillance apparatus, militarised police deployed in a civil war context would be unlike anything we have…
The End of Happy Globalisation: The Dawn of Economic War
Globalisation fades away as nationalism reasserts itself. If it doesn’t want to lose out economically, Europe must wake up.
The War Ends – and Only Then Begins
Ukraine’s transformation threatens to reshape Eastern Europe—with ripple effects across the continent.
Germany's Parallel Realities
How irreconcilable truths are driving Germans into a civil conflict.
Britain on the Brink
The UK’s fragile peace is cracking under the weight of identity, migration and mistrust.
Smartphones: Modern Life's Double-Edged Sword
Smartphones,once hailed as a marvel, bring freedom but also addiction. How do we balance their impact on our minds and brains?
Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Ignorance
How Western AI Misapprehends China—and Heightens the Risk of Strategic Misjudgement
The Price of Progress
Technological progress promises mastery—but has it instead eroded humanity’s greatest strength?
The Dumbphone Generation
Gen Z can edit a TikTok in seconds but don’t ask them to troubleshoot your laptop.
AI Idiocracy
AI was built to make us smarter. It ended up as a bad imitation and made us dumber instead.
The Age of Brainrot
Modern technology has not sharpened our minds: it has fractured, distracted, and devoured them.
Small Stocks, Big Dreams
Small firms like Arbutus and Verve promise a biotech revolution. Is their vision of the future rooted in reality or a delusion?
Shadows of the Deceased
At the behest of those left behind, AI can now bring the dead to life, which raises an ethical question or two.
Out, and Happy That Way
Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary will remain outside the eurozone for now.
From Liability to Asset
Under Meloni’s steady leadership, Italy got a grip on its inflation, to both markets’ and Brussels’ great surprise.
The People’s Price Plan
While the West wrestles with inflation and stagnation, China opts for something stranger: control.
Waiting for the Next Shock
Stagflation looms again as growth slows and prices rise—will another oil shock turn worry into reality in 2025?
Editorial: Doom Postponed
Economists love predicting disaster; yet economies survive, defying doom-sayers with their glorious unpredictability.
Shock Therapy for Buenos Aires
Inflation is down, the peso is stabilising, and the IMF is back. Will it be enough to save Argentina?
Macroeconomic Forecasts: A Skeptic’s View
Navigating macroeconomic forecasts is like sailing through a fog bank—while they can guide investors, they lack certainty.
Poland’s Twin Pillars of Power
Why Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński still dominate Polish politics—and why that may not change soon
From No Name To Key Player
From near-total obscurity, Karol Nawrocki has emerged as Poland’s unlikely unifier on the conservative right.
Editorial: A Different Kind of President
A nation caught between history and the present: on 6 August, a presidency will begin in Warsaw that is more than a mere change of…
Central Europe’s New Financial Powerhouse
Warsaw’s stock exchange outshines Vienna, with a 29% WIG20 surge and robust IPOs, emerging as Central Europe’s market leader.
Poland’s Folk Right Is No Joke
Two insurgent voices nearly toppled the centre right, despite running separate campaigns.
The Dark International
How Ultra-Conservative Networks from Poland and Hungary Are Running Out of Strategies
How Poland Went from Being a Beneficiary to a Contributor
Poland’s economic growth has made it a net contributor to the EU—its influence within the bloc will grow accordingly.
Poland’s ‘NATO First’ Position
Poland is going above and beyond when it comes to its defense obligations—it has every reason to do so.
Neighbours at the Gate
Poland has welcomed millions of Ukrainians, but initial goodwill and hopes for a demographic renewal are fast disappearing.
Why They Leave & What They Bring
Latin American migrants to the Global North are not silent conquerors but residues of widespread regional collapse.
The Demographic Trilemma
In the long arc of European history, few demographic shifts have posed such far-reaching questions about identity, stability, and …
The Torre Pacheco Incident
When an assault sparked nights of unrest, it exposed not only simmering tensions over migration but the deep fault lines in Spain’…
The Gulf’s Immigrants
In the Gulf states, migration fuels prosperity—but migrants are denied rights, citizenship, or any promise of belonging.
The Rhetoric-Reality Gap: Migration’s Strain
While it might solve labour shortages, the social cost of migration is becoming ever more pronounced.
A Tale Of Two Continents
The US and Europe face similar migration pressures—but diverge sharply in how these pan out.
Europe on Edge
Vigilantes at borders, unrest in cities—Europe faces a reckoning over control, identity, and legitimacy.
Engine of Growth or Hindrance to Prosperity?
There is an inherent paradox to migration, as it can both revitalise societies while putting them under considerable strain.