You will not feel pain. We will be okay.
Elections, the authoritarian playbook, and an ode to the hardest working font in Manhattan (#519)
Hope is a performative emotion
Also: Grief, microplastics and a recipe against right-wing populism. (#518)
10 ways to think about these «peace negotiations»
Plus: Dishonest charts, regime change, and what it means to be a gardener. (#517)
Meditations in an Emergency
And why every organisation needs a keeper of the truth. (#516)
What are we seeing?
Plus: Building churches upside-down and humanity's last exam. (#515)
50 lives you haven't lived
Plus the cutest story I've seen on the web in a while. (#514)
How to break the spell of the status quo
Plus some good news from Europe and a new in-depth profile of stuff our modern world runs on (#513)
Hello, Monsters!
Also: Why knowing is hard, and making sense of galaxies by turning them into cereals. (#511)
For Zuck's Sake
Also inside: 100 nice things, not even counting the 52 Lego bricks. (#511)
Update available (for your knowledge)
And some more recommendations to make you go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!» (#510)
Weekly Filet Awards 2024
The best of the best of the year, in the most unglamorous yet heartfelt ceremony of the year.
The good news of 2024 you missed
And how to be a «hopeful skeptic» (#509)