The Great Blackout
Today, the Iberian Peninsula was hit by a large-scale blackout that affected several regions of Spain and Portugal, highlighting the fragility of the European electricity system. The failure began around…
Ireland’s Protests Show Strength for the EU, Despite Challenges
Ireland Faces Its Challenges, But Stands By Its Values Today, around 7,000 people gathered in Dublin city centre as tensions over immigration spilled onto O’Connell Street. On one side, an…
The Energy Knot
What if the real challenge wasn’t which energy to use, but who decides how to produce it and for whom? The engineer gazed out the window at the sunset. The…
Conclave, the Film Everyone Should See
Conclave is the kind of film we should all sit down to watch today, because the Church cannot be without a pope. Released in theaters at the end of 2024,…
The Mural Art of Mauro Patta: Between Beauty and Meaning
His style is unmistakable: fragments of Sardinia reimagined with a contemporary touch. Threads of clothing, faces, and decorative elements define the time and place of his mural work. He is…
Corsica 1755: The Startup
Pasquale Paoli launches a visionary political project: a representative government, an elected assembly, public education. A beta version of modern democracy. A glitch in the system of the Ancien Régime.…
The Paradox of AI: From the Automation of Humans to the Anthropomorphization of Machines
For centuries, we’ve asked humans to become machines. Now, we’re asking machines to become human. This is the paradox of artificial intelligence: after pushing people toward extreme specialization, today we’re…
Freeing Freedom
In recent years, the international political landscape has seen developments that call for serious reflection. Both in the United States and Russia, we’ve witnessed a growing concentration of power in…
From a distant galaxy, a warning for the present
Can a science fiction saga reveal the crisis of our democracies? In 2002, 25 years after the release of the first film, George Lucas returned to the Star Wars universe…
The Lexicon of Power: Newspeak
Some words disappear quietly. Not because people stop using them, but because they are replaced, softened, and stripped of their impact. This happens everywhere: in politics, in the economy, and…
Lessons of Life
(credits University of Houston)A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar…
