Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…

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Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.

Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.