To claim that we live in an increasingly digital age is rather uncontroversial. Areas that until recently were considered hallmarks of the physical and analogue—such as various aspects of human emotions and social behaviour[AU1] —are rapidly becoming ‘datafied’ and brought into the digital realm.

On Sunday, September 21, nearly 100,000 people attended a memorial service for Charlie Kirk, a right-wing Christian political activist who was shot and killed at a Utah university 11 days earlier.

The spirit of sauna diplomacy lives on at the golf course. Stubb has simply traded the sauna ladle for a golf club.

- There is a feeling of us and them, and of detachment. This is serious. We need to reconstruct a system where the parties are connected to people again, where there is interaction with associations and organizations, trade unions, startups and religious communities. How to do this?

In a rapidly changing world, Europe now assumes a role it has not played since the colonial days.  This time around, the mission focuses on peace and stability, not exploitation and self-enrichment.

The desire among many for a society less influenced by “woke” culture may, perhaps, trump long-term thinking about what truly grants us freedom and the opportunity to live good lives. We need to rediscover-and also renew-the system of governance that the Haugeans played such a vital role in building.

Bill Clinton's defense minister, William Cohen, recently told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that the rule of law is what separates democracy from dictatorship. The interview concerned both the preparations for Donald Trump's upcoming presidency and Joe Biden's last days in the White House.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was clear in his analysis of the newly elected President Donald Trump in 2016. The Washington Times reported on December 16th of that year that Kissinger, after a meeting with Trump, believed that he would introduce a new American foreign policy. "Donald Trump is a phenomenon that other countries have not seen before," Kissinger said, and he believed this could have far-reaching consequences.

Despite living in a human rights-centric culture, we continually forget about the rights of one category of human beings - unborn children. A common misconception is that by protecting the right of the unborn to live, we must in turn infringe upon the dignity and bodily autonomy of women. This false dichotomy has been peddled to us by lobbyists and activists alike and I believe it is time to debunk this myth and bring to light the destructive consequences of continuing to hold fast to this misinformed belief. 

Our therapeutic culture is suffering. The number of young people with depression, anxiety and suicide thoughts is rising in the West. Several reasons are suggested. The know social psycologist Jonathan Haidt thinks an important reason is the screens we give our kids. Maybe a secular culture is too weakly equipped to handle purpose. Probably a bit of everything. Purpose is an important medicine to face this.

It might be a simple dilemma: either we continue to live as we want and as we are accustomed to, and we face our own extinction or we change our lives and we survive; there is no third possibility / tertium non datur.

Social media and smartphones captured our attention. How can we ensure AI doesn't capture our hearts but instead leads to hopeful futures for our kids?