The New Babel
When everyone is a journalist, truth competes with demand—and the market for outrage risks collapsing under its own weight.
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Santiago Sierra
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.
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.
Cross my Influencer’s Palm with Silver
Online influencers with enormous reach are prime candidates for bribery by governments and special interest groups.
The End of the Media
Why a future without news awaits us.
Between Reality and Alienation
Memes and reels can help restore the connection between information and external reality, but risk fuelling the self-referentialit…
Solzhenitsyn’s Shadow: The Moral Crisis Haunting the West
Solzhenitsyn’s prophetic warnings of moral decline and division haunt the West, urging courage and spiritual renewal.
Divine Insight at Fatima
Fatima’s prophecy highlights two core aspects of contemporary global history: the centrality of Russia and the persecution of Chri…
Against the Democratic Moment
A Catholic aristocrat, Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn foresaw liberalism’s slow unravelling.
Prophet of a Lost Europe
Against the intoxication of globalism and the cult of ugliness, Roger Scruton insisted on beauty, home, and ecology.
Prophecies of Don Camillo’s Father
Guareschi foresaw a crisis of conscience and ideology. His small world speaks to today’s collapse of mass politics and faith.
Editorial: Borkenau’s Revenge - The Quest for the Ur-Myth
What happens when a civilisation loses its story? Franz Borkenau wrote the script we now seem to be following.
Editorial: When MAGA Met the Maccabees
Trump dreams of a Nobel, Israel dreams of Iran’s demise, and MAGA asks whether America First comes with an asterisk.
In Bibi’s Image
A puzzling blend of charisma, grief, and ruthless focus defines Binyamin Netanyahu—and present-day Israel.
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Come of Age
Lead: An ever growing minority, Israel’s religious right will determine the state’s future trajectory.
Pillars in the Rubble
Cardinal Pizzaballa’s new Vatican role spotlights the church’s peacemaking as regional Christian communities falter amid mounting…
War and Wealth: The Paradox of Israel’s Booming Stock Market Siroky
Israel’s economy strains under war costs, yet its stock market thrives. Uncover the paradox driving this resilience.
The Unholy Alliance of Antisemitism
How Far-Right, Far-Left, and Arab-Islamist Antisemitism Converge.
The Great Unravelling
As Europe turns inward and becomes seemingly moribund, the world is moving on.
Europe’s Illusion of Power
Europe’s sovereignty is an illusion, undermined by reliance on NATO, US trade, and tech giants.
Between Ambition and Isolation
The EU’s foreign policy betrays the weakness of its leaders, cornered by fading cohesion, American indifference, and a self-defyin…
Between New “Empires”
Two Post-Liberal States Are Rising — While Old Europe Hesitates in Denial.
Editorial: The Old Man of the West
Europe, once a global powerhouse, now shuffles through retirement as its heirs manage the legacy and it clings to past glories.
Rethinking Europe – Between Decadence and Renewal
Migration, Identity, and the Question of Internal Peace.
Europe’s Missing Giants
Without towering figures, the EU stagnates. Save for one unwelcome outsider, a vacuum of leadership prevails.
The Power of Human Heuristics
Human heuristics, not raw data, drive true creativity, blending intuition with AI’s power for tomorrow’s innovation.
Kulturstaat 2.0
How the technocratic age engineered aesthetics without agony—and why the last free mind must resist.
Man Against the Machine
Today, algorithms excel at replication. From music to marketing copy, AI tools trained on massive datasets can remix existing styl…
Will AI Eclipse Genius?
The future of genius and the creative works it births seems precarious: but not all hope is lost.
The Thin Line Between Art and Propaganda
Art seeks transcendence through revelation; modern culture increasingly settles for superficial repetition.
What Is AI Cooking up?
From flavour chemistry to global food systems, AI is redefining cooking—and challenging the role of the human chef.
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.
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.
Editorial: The Century of Movement
When mobility becomes not a right, but an obligation.
Israel and the Next Refugee Crisis
Rising Middle East violence threatens to unleash a new refugee wave that could shake Europe to its core.
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…