Mark Gullick
Central American exceptionalism: Costa Rica faces la pandemia
The tiny country’s success at tackling coronavirus
Sea View
“Buy land,” Mark Twain famously advised. “They’ve stopped making it.” A century after Twain’s death, according to an organisation called the Seasteading Institute (SI), production is resumed.
“Seasteading” is a 30-year-old portmanteau word combining homesteading with the unused resource provided by the oceans: the building of small offshore cities planned outside the jurisdiction of any nation state. The idea originated with Ken Neumeyer in his 1981 book, Sailing the Farm, and SI intends to bring the phrase to life by the end of this decade.
Walking the Plank
The government’s hypocrisy over “green issues” is forcing those living on our waterways out of their homes
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts