We are captives – but we have Wi-Fi

“Do you know how the last Tasmanian tiger died?” Telemachus asked me in the car. He has always taken a keen interest in finding information...

The men that turned into ants

Yannis Makridakis is a farmer and an author. He built his hut on mountainous Chios and cultivates the earth; mildly, showing respect to diversity. He...

The Gospel of Moses

Life is a miracle we cast in the gullet of fear. We were not born free, we were not born humans; we become free, we...

The loneliness of the wise man

The wise man, namely Homo sapiens sapiens, is the only surviving species of its genus. This is somewhat unusual. The animals of most genera have...

Homo Sarcophilus

The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is the largest carnivorous marsupial – after the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in 1936. It’s not bigger than a small dog,...

This is not a coup, my dear

Forget about Kafka. You are Joseph K. and your trial has just begun. We will come over to your house and we won’t bother to...