Can the Old Continent ever be at peace? — The recent events in France are no surprise for anyone who’s had an eye on the country for the last 15 years. It’s the logical consequence of a series of clashes and insecurities that the continent has been subjected to since the end of the 60s. France’s problems are not…

Beware of indigestion. — I must have read +100 books since I started reading compulsively in January 2021. Besides gaining an insane amount of knowledge, my entire life changed. I am now earning a (small) full-time income as an online writer and have a much more profound understanding of society, myself, and a wide…

pLaYiNg iT SaFe Is DaNgErOuS. — My Very Normal Childhood I was born in the 90s in a totally normal middle-class family, somewhere in the Western world. My parents met at Oxbridge during their double-PhD in law and mechanical engineering. At 6, I got a computer and taught myself how to code, because, why not. I was so passionate about…

Part I. — Europe’s lack of definite optimistic vision for the future is expressed through its 6 weeks of annual vacation. Peter Thiel Europe has a tendency to be defined through its history, food, architecture, and culture. America, on the other hand, is defined by its entrepreneurs, companies, army, political class, and contemporary…

I’ve read “Sacred Foundations” by Anna Grzymala. — Two theories are often used to explain the birth of the European state: The bellicist theory posits that the state built its institutions to wage war. The bargaining theory suggests that the state was a result of compromises between rulers and their people. Sacred Foundations, on the other hand, advances…

Did you read any of them? — Books have been censored and burnt since humanity has been writing them. The following 8 books were quite controversial when they came out and many of them have become even more so today. 1. The 120 Days of Sodom

We need to stop with this ridiculous idea. — When Hamdi Ulukaya built Chobani, the media told his story as the “immigrant who built a business from $0 to $1 billion”. They omitted the fact that Ulukaya had already been selling cheese with his 40-employee company for a while and that he had almost a decade of experience in…

Good question. — Why are the libs wrong about everything? Progressivism (also called “liberalism” today in US English) began during the French Revolution. The progressists wanted to deconstruct the established order to give people two things: Freedom (liberté) Equality (égalité) So far, so good. Once freedom had been established, the work of the…

A (very) important book. — 10 years ago, I set on a quest to find out why I felt so estranged and disconnected in any social settings. I went to therapy at 22 and got out of it at 25. I was a new man — undoubtedly — but quickly understood that I had only…