I experienced some social media backlash after posting a selfie from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Beyond the usual problem of annoying comments, this experience raises questions about our current social media use.
Credential inflation leads to mass ghost-writing
As students value higher education for credentials instead of knowledge, ghostwriting becomes a lucrative business.
Eli Roth’s “Green Inferno” Is a Metaphor for Today’s Environmental Movement
People looking to find employment and entrepreneurs alike are struggling due to crushing government environmental regulations and taxes.
Should anyone sift through old tweets?
Remember the tweet you thought was hilarious, but that would now land you in hot water? Yeah, you know which one. But should it even get you in trouble?
[Podcast] The Innocents Abroad Episode 25: Who and what is Europe?
I was a guest in The Innocents Abroad podcast run by my friend and colleague Yaël Ossowski. We spent 40 minutes in an hotel café in Vienna, philosophising about the politics and culture of this continent. Click down below to listen to the entire episode.
“The Extinction Rebellion” is the result of decade-long fanaticism
Radical climate change activists in the UK have disrupted the nation’s capital for almost a week now. Their preferred tactics: property destruction and the obnoxious blocking of major thoroughfares and transport options.
How do you even “march for Europe”?
Seriously, what does that mean?
Fanatics drive politics
The most fanatical of activists have an impact on actual policies. That is why they cannot be ignored.
We need to talk about the word “populism”
The European elections are coming up, and so are some predictable headlines. More stories have probably been written about “the rise of populism” than there are fish in the sea. It is easy to find who these populists are. A simple Google search does the trick: Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, Jarosław Kaczyński. […]
Protecting the environment should be about being pro-human
In figures released by Eurostat this month, it was reported that only 6.4% of energy consumed in the Grand Duchy in 2017 came from renewable sources, making Luxembourg stand more than ten percentage points below the EU average of 17.5%as well as the member state producing the least amount from renewable energy. Granted, this number […]
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