Culture

How we live together while old certainties take a break.

  • Thinking Is a Public Act

    Thinking Is a Public Act

    Trust is falling and news avoidance is settling in. The remedy is not more information but more company: thinking out loud, in rooms with other people in them.

  • Gifts We Cannot Afford

    Gifts We Cannot Afford

    Christmas generosity has quietly acquired a credit line. The pressure behind it is not greed but belonging, and it is paid for, increasingly, later.