Issues

It’s easy to be pessimistic. Especially at the moment. If you go by feeds, timelines and the ceaseless ticker tape of the rolling news you would think that the apocalypse is imminent. And there...

If there’s a list of ranking topics that have been beaten to death in Contentland, procrastination must be in the top ten, if not the top five, on that list. Every self-help writer and...

Kevin Mackay is a voice in the world of “health-improvement” that doesn’t quite fit in. He marches to the beat of his own drum. In a field dominated by prescriptions for supplements, Kevin offers...

It was a rainy night in late October when I opened the door and let him in. The clock was well past midnight and I was in no mood for company. In fact, I...

Social media. It brings us together, so it appears. That was the utopian ideal set amongst the Facebook tagline that “helps us to connect” and Twitter’s urge to figure out “what’s happening”, but over...

How many times have you seen “angelic” numbers (111, 33) and considered them a sign? Or, a bird sitting at your front porch, a candle flickering, or a cat walking in front of you? Our...

Politics is downstream from culture, as the saying goes. And this is true. But culture itself, I would argue, is downstream from pharmacology. At the very source of the stream, then, is what is...

The vampire can’t see its reflection. In the social media world, humans can’t either; what was a reflection once has now become more akin to a broken mirror; now, our identity is more of...

That soundtrack compilation, the eBook on common financial mistakes, the marketing agency riding the coattails of #MotivationMonday, the meme spreading like wildfire, a Minecraft test of survival… We all consume digital content, but our tastes...

Since I wrote on the difference between mechanistic and phenomenological worldviews, there has been an explosion of interest in esoterica in Twitter circles—astrology in particular is enjoying a tremendous boom in popularity. However, discussing...