Feeling good, not doing good
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No ships reached Gaza. No lives were saved. No policy shifted. No real consequence followed. What this protest did produce—abundantly—were photographs, Instagram reels, press write-ups, and a new round of likes, shares, and comment-section outrage.
That’s the tragedy. Not the cause, but the futility.
One Species. Three Histories. One Unfinished Question. Human beings built the pyramids, organized Auschwitz, and reached the Moon. The same species. Extraordinary intelligence. Radically different purposes. What explains this?
By Khaled Salih 18 October 2026 Some books answer questions. Others make the questions harder to abandon. Michael Shermer’s Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters belongs to the second kind. It asks us to defend something both elementary and increasingly difficult: that
What connects Kurdish political freedom, religious certainty, institutional failure, rational criticism, and the open future? The books presented on OTHERWISE investigate how human beings create explanations, how some explanations become protected against criticism, and how knowledge and freedom can open possibilities that previously appeared closed. The library brings together five
Vad tror sig kommittén faktiskt belöna? Är priset ett erkännande av prestation eller ett försök att påverka framtiden? Publiserad 14 Oktober 2026 Jag blev arg när årets Nobels fredspris tillkännagavs. Men ilska är inget argument, så jag försökte i stället förstå vad jag egentligen reagerade på. Det handlade inte bara