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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Memes and reels can help restore the connection between information and external reality, but risk fuelling the self-referentialit…
Why a future without news awaits us.
Online influencers with enormous reach are prime candidates for bribery by governments and special interest groups.
All over the world, trust in traditional media is collapsing as alternative outlets come to the fore.
When everyone is a journalist, truth competes with demand—and the market for outrage risks collapsing under its own weight.
YouTube has taken over the media world, outpacing TV and Netflix—and it may spell the end of online news.
Family models, not just civilizations, shape global conflicts. From Western individualism to Eastern collectivism, values clash.
Europe's leaders speak of civilisation, but can no longer agree on what the term actually means.
The West has lost its founding myth—can a new one rise from the rubble, or is the age of civilisation itself ending?
Latin America is not a failed copy of the West: it is a civilisation in its own right, though misread, misgoverned, and misaligned…
Beijing’s Global Civilisation Initiative is rewriting the playbook for how soft power is applied.
Western civilisation faces cultural fragmentation. Vico’s cyclical theory might explain its current decline.
Civil unrest simmers, but the real collapse may come quietly—when managed chaos slips beyond control.
Backed by a modern-day surveillance apparatus, militarised police deployed in a civil war context would be unlike anything we have…
Globalisation fades away as nationalism reasserts itself. If it doesn’t want to lose out economically, Europe must wake up.
Ukraine’s transformation threatens to reshape Eastern Europe—with ripple effects across the continent.
How irreconcilable truths are driving Germans into a civil conflict.
The UK’s fragile peace is cracking under the weight of identity, migration and mistrust.
Smartphones,once hailed as a marvel, bring freedom but also addiction. How do we balance their impact on our minds and brains?
How Western AI Misapprehends China—and Heightens the Risk of Strategic Misjudgement
Technological progress promises mastery—but has it instead eroded humanity’s greatest strength?
Gen Z can edit a TikTok in seconds but don’t ask them to troubleshoot your laptop.
AI was built to make us smarter. It ended up as a bad imitation and made us dumber instead.
Modern technology has not sharpened our minds: it has fractured, distracted, and devoured them.
Small firms like Arbutus and Verve promise a biotech revolution. Is their vision of the future rooted in reality or a delusion?
At the behest of those left behind, AI can now bring the dead to life, which raises an ethical question or two.
Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary will remain outside the eurozone for now.
Under Meloni’s steady leadership, Italy got a grip on its inflation, to both markets’ and Brussels’ great surprise.
While the West wrestles with inflation and stagnation, China opts for something stranger: control.
Stagflation looms again as growth slows and prices rise—will another oil shock turn worry into reality in 2025?
Economists love predicting disaster; yet economies survive, defying doom-sayers with their glorious unpredictability.
Inflation is down, the peso is stabilising, and the IMF is back. Will it be enough to save Argentina?
Navigating macroeconomic forecasts is like sailing through a fog bank—while they can guide investors, they lack certainty.
Why Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński still dominate Polish politics—and why that may not change soon
From near-total obscurity, Karol Nawrocki has emerged as Poland’s unlikely unifier on the conservative right.
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…
Warsaw’s stock exchange outshines Vienna, with a 29% WIG20 surge and robust IPOs, emerging as Central Europe’s market leader.
Two insurgent voices nearly toppled the centre right, despite running separate campaigns.
How Ultra-Conservative Networks from Poland and Hungary Are Running Out of Strategies
Poland’s economic growth has made it a net contributor to the EU—its influence within the bloc will grow accordingly.
Poland is going above and beyond when it comes to its defense obligations—it has every reason to do so.
Poland has welcomed millions of Ukrainians, but initial goodwill and hopes for a demographic renewal are fast disappearing.
Latin American migrants to the Global North are not silent conquerors but residues of widespread regional collapse.
In the long arc of European history, few demographic shifts have posed such far-reaching questions about identity, stability, and …
When an assault sparked nights of unrest, it exposed not only simmering tensions over migration but the deep fault lines in Spain’…
In the Gulf states, migration fuels prosperity—but migrants are denied rights, citizenship, or any promise of belonging.
While it might solve labour shortages, the social cost of migration is becoming ever more pronounced.
The US and Europe face similar migration pressures—but diverge sharply in how these pan out.
Vigilantes at borders, unrest in cities—Europe faces a reckoning over control, identity, and legitimacy.
There is an inherent paradox to migration, as it can both revitalise societies while putting them under considerable strain.