by vanissadrar | Jun 30, 2026 | JOURNALISM
Life is often about embracing one challenge only to encounter another. We spend much of our lives believing that we must overcome every obstacle before we can finally be happy. We keep pushing ourselves toward some imagined happy ending, forgetting that, in the...
by vanissadrar | Jun 29, 2026 | JOURNALISM
We tell ourselves that death is part of life, that everyone eventually reaches the end of their journey, and that accepting this is the reasonable thing to do. Yet love rarely follows reason. When someone has become woven into our daily existence, their absence is not...
by vanissadrar | Jun 26, 2026 | BOOKS REVIEWS
I’ll be honest — I went into this book a little skeptical. Tech criticism has become its own cottage industry, and a lot of it follows a predictable script: Silicon Valley bad, the internet broken, democracy endangered, see you in the footnotes. Jonathan...
by vanissadrar | Jun 11, 2026 | BOOKS REVIEWS
The Big Idea: Reclaim human values, connection, and autonomy in a world increasingly dominated by digital technology and algorithmic thinking. Media theorist and digital culture critic Douglas Rushkoff presents a manifesto for reasserting human agency against...
by vanissadrar | Jun 7, 2026 | BOOKS REVIEWS
The Big Idea: Cyberspace has become a battleground where nations fight for power, information, and control—with profound implications for everyone. Adam Segal, director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, examines how...