The Calm Warrior A few days ago, my twelve year old daughter asked me something serious. Not about school, not about friends, not about home...

The Last Horizon Yesterday my daughter and I drove to France. Just across the Swiss border. Nothing dramatic. A few hours there, a few hours...

Carry Your Center This is about parenting. Not the visible parts. Not school choices, hobbies, or rules about screen time. This is about the...

I Fight for My Feelings There was a young woman standing in the street, holding a sign that read: I fight fascism. She was not shouting. She...

Epstein Files: Carry No Illusions For a period of my life, I worked as private secretary to a very powerful man. A billionaire. Well known. ...

Crans Montana: When the Government Begins to Behave Like a Cartel On January 1, 2026, shortly after one in the morning, a fire broke out in ...

Stoicism Never Took the Red Pill A bald man in dark glasses named Andrew Tate points at the camera. A recent article in the Süddeutsche Zei...

A Smackdown With Pure Reason  I tried to know the world once. Really know it. Not the postcard version. Not the goddamn brochure. I leaned o...

The Political Nightmare There was a time when politics at least pretended to justify itself. Facts were bent, interests disguised, motives c...

When Intelligence Has Nowhere to Go In the Spanish movie Sleep Tight (2011), the setting is an apartment building in Barcelona. A place held...

Importing Meaning In the 1960s, the Western left encountered an outcome its own theory had not prepared it for. Marx had assumed that indust...

Honmono: Authenticity as Residue  In Japanese, honmono (本物) means “the real thing.” At its simplest, it distinguishes what is genuine from w...

Where the Line Begins to Move Free speech in Europe is under pressure. Not abolished, not extinguished, but increasingly managed. In one sen...

The Swiss Village That Did Not Argue There is a village that looks, at first glance, exactly the way a Swiss village should look. The houses...

Reality Is Nazi There is a peculiar kind of person one encounters more and more often now. They enter the room composed, articulate, certain...

A Middle Path for Navigating Modern Complexity with Wisdom and Grace People in the West keep returning to Taoism and Buddhism the way city d...

The Epstein Distraction The most corrosive effect of the Epstein obsession is not what it reveals, but what it immobilizes. The story functi...

The Gym, Late Afternoon The gym is bright in the wrong way. Fluorescent light. Mirrors everywhere. Bodies doing what bodies have always done...

Suicide of a Civilisation Mental health is not the human default. That uncomfortable fact was stated with icy clarity by Peter Wessel Zapffe...

Post-Legitimacy Governance A cold winter in Europe. Snow in places where warmer, milder seasons were promised. Ice on the roads. On social m...

Karen Is Not Just a Woman: This Should Not Be Happening to Me For most of my adult life, the system has worked quietly in my favor. Borders....

Ontological Fragmentation and the Death of Mass Culture What is happening around us is often described as polarization. That word is too sma...

The Fantasy of the Meta-Position Dieting is where a deeper political and philosophical lie becomes visible in everyday life. On the surface,...

2021: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Switzerland: “I Stand Here With You” What follows is my report as it appeared in a small Swiss newspaper. On ...

Radioactive Liability: Why the West Did Not Go After China The Western response to the origins of COVID-19 only looks puzzling if you take o...

Social Work Without Being Social There is a particular kind of unease that arises when form and content drift too far apart. I felt it recen...

To My Daughter on Her Twelfth Birthday There is an old philosophy called Stoicism. It began more than two thousand years ago, with people wh...

NPCs Don’t Suffer Late at night, dark trailers were placed across a highway in Germany. No lights. No warning. A truck driver barely stopped...

  Was Hitler Left or Right? The claim that Hitler was “left-wing” does not come from historical study. It comes from present-day political i...

State of the European Union The European Union reaffirmed its commitment to unity. Several member states expressed reservations. The measure...

The West in Stereo If you put today’s America and today’s Europe next to each other, you don’t see harmony or balance. You see a structural ...

Donald Trump and the Price of Volatility Donald Trump was in Switzerland last week, speaking in Davos at the World Economic Forum. By coinci...

The End of Corrective Reality The conversation broke down over a single word. I was speaking with a fellow school social worker, a woman wit...

Why Some Men Want to Become Women  Something historically strange is happening in the West. Large numbers of men in Western societies are op...

Asleep at the Wheel None of this was a surprise. The demographic collapse unfolding across Europe, East Asia, and much of the developed worl...

Sanctioning Neutrality I didn’t follow Jacques Baud closely. I don’t live inside the daily churn of war commentary, expert panels, or Telegr...

The Death of Arthur Arthur did not die at Camlann. He died later, quietly, under layers of good intentions. From a distance, the Arthurian l...

Identity Without Skin We like to think of ourselves as free. Especially in modern societies. Free to choose, free to define ourselves, free ...

Hierarchy Theater Job interviews like to pretend they are conversations. They are not. Most of the time they resemble a low-budget televisio...

T oo Late to Be Here Nobody has ever been where they thought they were.

Quantum Rhetoric and the Collapse of Political Meaning Schrödinger’s cat was invented to expose nonsense. A dead-and-alive cat was never mea...

Skip the Ad Three scenes. Different places, different people. One shared mistake. The first took place at a university, maybe ten years ago....

The Changing Poles For a long time, race was a word you expected to hear from the political right. It came wrapped in crude hierarchies, bio...

Thin Ice Politics We live in a time where politics no longer feels like a contest of ideas but like a test of psychological endurance. The o...

Cultural Power and the Megaphone Effect One of the quiet mistakes of modern life is believing that visibility equals relevance. Take veganis...

The Revolution That Never Ended History is rarely written by liars. But it is almost always written by winners. And winners, even when they ...

A Sports Hall and the Desire to Do Everything Right In a small town in Switzerland, officials are debating whether a newly built sports hall...

From Punk to Pariah There was a time when criticizing the establishment made you unfashionable, irritating, perhaps unemployable for a while...

What We Can Learn from Benjamin Netanyahu and Where It Becomes Dangerous Benjamin Netanyahu is not an accident of history, nor a deviation f...

Rethinking Addiction My father drank himself to death. Not metaphorically. Not slowly fading. He destroyed his body until it stopped functio...