Category: Lifestyle

Rediscovering rootedness

Paul Cudenec Aug 18, 2025 [Plus audio version] It is not our belonging to nature that has been stolen from us by the industrial system, but our awareness of that belonging. The distinction is an important one, because it means that it lies within our own power to […]

Coming back to life

Posted on August 20, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Because the magic in our lives has been deliberately removed by the industrial slave-system, because our all-round withness has been deliberately stolen from us, we are obliged to take deliberate steps to […]

Spare the Iditarod

Bathsheba Demuth Where the Dogs Run Along the Yukon River, declining salmon populations threaten the future of the region’s sled dogs—and the communities that rely on them.   Adam Shatz ‘Like a Hymn’ The jazz pianist Amina Claudine Myers has spent her career weaving jazz, blues, gospel, and […]

The Game of Life

Sponsored by Reaktion Books This week on the NYR Online, Zoe Hu writes about The Sims, a computer game released in the year 2000 that gave its users God-like power over the lives—and deaths—of the denizens of its virtual suburbia. Returning to the game, Hu finds that it […]

Why are Americans becoming so lonely?

Week XXIII, MMXXV Brought to you by Valas Los Angeles Recently, in The Signal: What does financial repression in autocracies have to do with financial freedom in democracies? Justin Callais on human flourishing in the modern world. Today: Why are Americans becoming so lonely? Milena Batanova on a […]

It’s Not Really About Glennon

How a popular writer became a proxy for the fear and frustration people feel living in a merciless hyper-capitalist system Kirsten Powers May 05, 2025 The uber bestselling author, cultural force, and friend of Oprah, Glennon Doyle, did not receive a universally warm welcome when she recently arrived […]

Too Hot to Work

Prostitution is cool again, oops I meant sex work Evgenia Apr 27, 2025 In the last few months since MAGA came into full power, it seems that the vibe shift I’ve been harping on has been taking a more definitive shape. It’s not just a vibe anymore, it […]

The Future is not Trad

If we want to revitalise culture we have to address the attachment traditionalists have to forms and style Alexander Adams Apr 21, 2025 [Alexander Adams, untitled (c. 2001), oil on linen, 16” x 16”] Since I began publishing statements and articles, I have defended many forms of art. […]