A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging ...

Dominant policy frameworks place market-based approaches at the centre of the energy transition. The narrative is that competition between profit-driven private actors will drive innovation, leading ...

Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California. The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies. We ...

Donald Trump claims Iran has been "militarily defeated", but many reports have come out showing this to be a lie. Tehran destroyed the majority of US military bases in West Asia (aka the Middle East), ...

One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the faults of an entire system on a single individual. Remove ...

In response to the US-Israeli war, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil chokepoint on Earth, causing energy prices to skyrocket. However, Tehran is allowing Chinese tankers ...

In US-blockaded Cuba, ingenious mechanics and inventors revive old machines to survive during a time of scarcity. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Cuba was plunged into crisis. Fuel, food and ...

In Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky retells the story from St. Augustine’s City of God in which a pirate, captured by Alexander the Great, is asked how he dares to molest the sea. “How dare you ...

One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled “Twenty Theses for Liberation.” Noam didn’t agree with every word, nor did ...

The idea, in short, is that the left's emphasis on empathy—especially toward marginalized groups, refugees, or people fleeing violence—has become excessive, overriding our ability to make rational, ...

Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important modernity-challenging ideas are ...

Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care. At its core, it asks not just how we can reduce harm, but how we can restore, heal, and actively give ...