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Not everyone understands Dutch, so some articles are written in English.
Like many well-meaning, left-leaning, oat-milk-drinking adults, my partner and I watched Netflix’s Adolescence with the fascinated dread of watching a gender implode in real time. The insecure man, afraid of losing his crown, therefore doubles down on his dominant behaviour. At the heart of it lies a belief that if someone else gains power, the …
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On a brisk December evening in Antwerp, the city was cloaked in a typical winter chill, the kind that makes you question why you ever leave your house. It was the kind of night that beckoned for the comfortable seats of a warm cinema. The streets shimmered with rain, the air thick with the scent …
Let’s face it: reading about climate change usually feels like being trapped in a monologue delivered by a doomsday prophet. Fire, floods, famine… fun times ahead! But what if, instead of grim inevitability, we were handed an actual plan? Enter Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. The book that doesn’t …
Welcome to the brave new world of state surveillance capitalism, where your data isn’t just being harvested for ad revenue — it’s also being catalogued for national security, social order, and probably a bit of light amusement by an omnipresent algorithm somewhere. In most places, this is a job best left to Silicon Valley. But …
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Have you ever stared at a barcode and thought, “Wow, this little strip of black and white lines is basically the linchpin of global capitalism”? No? Well, Tim Harford has. In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, he takes the seemingly mundane detritus of human progress: things like barcodes, shipping containers, and artificial light. …
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Transcending the boundaries of time (as all good poets must, lest they be doomed to mere historical footnote status), are you prepared to catapult yourself headfirst into the ever-turbulent, lace-collared, soul-wracked existence of John Donne? Yes, that John Donne: the one who turned flea bites into flirtation and existential crises into world-class verse. Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations …
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