Culture

July 25, 2026

The Hands That Make the World: Why Craft Traditions Deserve a Future

Somewhere in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a woman is dyeing wool. In Agra, India, an artisan bends over a sliver of marble smaller than a fingernail, fitting it into a

Culture

July 11, 2026

Saving Ukraine’s Art is an Act of Resistance

A painting does not bleed. A sculpture does not cry out when a shell lands nearby. An icon cannot flee an occupied city. Yet in Ukraine, works of art have become casualties,

Culture

July 8, 2026

A Different Canada Took the Pitch

There is something happening on Canadian soccer fields this summer that hockey rinks and baseball diamonds have never quite managed to produce: a national team that looks like the country actually filling

What the World Cup Teaches Us About Demography and Development

As the FIFA Men’s World Cup unfolds across North America, billions of people are tuning in to watch what is arguably the planet’s most influential sporting event. A record 48 nations are

June 19, 2026

Culture

How India Is Reimagining Affordable Housing

In my earlier piece, The Third Way Home: What Uruguay Teaches Us About Housing, I explored how Uruguay built one of the world’s most durable cooperative housing systems by putting land, ownership, and

June 16, 2026

Culture

The Last Lesson We Learned Before We Forgot It

American education has developed a peculiar habit: every time a new technology arrives, we treat skepticism as a failure of imagination. This is how we got laptops in every classroom. It is

June 3, 2026

Culture·Technology

The Third Way Home: What Uruguay Teaches Us About Housing

The global housing crisis is not a mystery. Its dimensions are well-documented, its victims numerous: more than 1.8 billion people worldwide lack access to adequate, affordable shelter. What remains scarce is not

May 23, 2026

Culture

The Devil Wears Redundancy Notice

There is a certain irony in the fact that The Devil Wears Prada 2 opens in cinemas today. The sequel is set in a world of declining print media — Miranda Priestly and Andy

May 1, 2026

Culture

Sundance’s Last Dance: Indie Dreams Fade in Park City

The Sundance Film Festival wrapped its final edition in Park City, Utah, this January, and with it, an era. Once the launchpad that turned shoestring productions into cultural phenomena, the festival now

February 20, 2026

Culture

Cheap Clothes, Expensive Planet: The True Cost of Fast Fashion

Fast fashion was sold to us as democratized style, a promise that anyone, anywhere, could afford to look current. But beneath the bright lights of seasonal sales and endless online drops lies

February 13, 2026

Culture

Begums Out, Patriarchy In: Why are Women Missing from Bangladesh’s New Dawn?

The stark underrepresentation of women in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election stands as a glaring contradiction to the nation’s recent history and the pivotal role women played in its political transformation. As voters, nearly

February 12, 2026

Asia·Culture

Slop, Scroll, Scorn: The Internet’s Rage-Fueled Addiction Machine

The internet in 2026 feels increasingly hostile, shallow and exhausting not by accident but because anger and compulsion are now core features of how major platforms make money. Slop, rage bait and

February 7, 2026

Culture·Technology

The Woman Who Made Us Laugh Through Tears: Farewell to Catherine O’Hara

Catherine O’Hara lit up the screen every time she showed up—whether she was screaming “KEVIN!” in holiday chaos, dancing possessed to “Day-O” in a haunted house, or delivering lines in an indecipherable

February 1, 2026

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The Hands That Make the World: Why Craft Traditions Deserve a Future

Saving Ukraine’s Art is an Act of Resistance

A Different Canada Took the Pitch

What the World Cup Teaches Us About Demography and Development

How India Is Reimagining Affordable Housing

The Last Lesson We Learned Before We Forgot It

The Third Way Home: What Uruguay Teaches Us About Housing

The Devil Wears Redundancy Notice

Sundance’s Last Dance: Indie Dreams Fade in Park City

Cheap Clothes, Expensive Planet: The True Cost of Fast Fashion

Begums Out, Patriarchy In: Why are Women Missing from Bangladesh’s New Dawn?

Slop, Scroll, Scorn: The Internet’s Rage-Fueled Addiction Machine

The Woman Who Made Us Laugh Through Tears: Farewell to Catherine O’Hara

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