YEAR II  ·  No. 556  ·  FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2026

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Your capacity to not be alone was the first natural resource Silicon Valley learned to extract

Nearly one in four people aged over fifteen reports feeling quite or very lonely, according to the study conducted by Meta and Gallup between 2022 and 2023 across 142 countries. The figure is staggering, but what is most revealing is who published it. The very company whose platforms have been documented as instruments of systematic … CONTINUE READING →

In 1886, Tolstoy Described a Man Who Did Everything Right and Never Really Lived. Today That Man Has a Hundred Million Followers

There are books that age and books that wait. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, which Tolstoy completed in 1886, belongs to the second category. It was not waiting for a more educated reader. It was waiting for an infrastructure. It found one. Ivan Ilyich Golovin was a judge, a civil servant, a man of standing. … CONTINUE READING →