Watching Ben Shapiro attacking Nick Fuentes must count amongst the most un-self-conscious acts of attempting to exonerate one's own culpability ever attempted.

Comparing Liev Schreiber and Elon Musk's engagement with their own trans child makes me wonder why anyone could consider the latter someone to look up to.

The obvious gendering apart, perhaps there's something to be said for the selective democratic election process that just unfolded in the Vatican. Members of an organisation coming together to elect one of theirs to provide leadership. Universities did that in bygone days...

Our excellent colleague Brian Rosa guiding our students through Can Batlló in Barcelona. Help is always appreciated when out ‘in the field’!

Someone explain to me why 'the masses' are willing to swallow a lot of painful economic bs that negatively affects them in their pockets but are unwilling to accept even a modicum of habit-adjusting change when it comes to saving the planet?

Ich vermisse eben Günter Grass und Heinrich Böll doch sehr.

Did Trump voters mean to stop cancer research? Of course not. But they did - at least temporarily. Did voters of the NSdAP mean to exterminate ’the Jews’? Of course not. But they did. Consider the consequences of who and what party you vote for.

Why are people who proclaim to be dissatisfied with the world they live in voting for people with no expertise, no desire to improve matters and no love for neither their fellow human beings nor the planet we inhabit? Beats me.