Digital Rights Aren’t Enough. Europe Needs a Right to Human Access
Europe has spent two decades defending digital rights. It’s now time to defend something even more fundamental: the right to…
The Things We Choose Again and Again
The record waited. Nothing else does anymore. Chris Kremidas-Courtney This morning, I woke up and put on a Stone Roses…
Soccer’s Exile: What Britain’s Rejected Word Tells America About Its Future
Britain’s forty-year campaign against a word they invented is a sign of what Americans can expect to be doing themselves…
Splitting at scale: How social media Is rewiring us for black and white thinking
Somewhere between scrolling online and the block button, social media turned a childhood defense mechanism into a mass psychological phenomenon.…
Pride is Europe’s annual democracy test
A society that won’t defend its most targeted citizens is only defending a restricted version of democracy. Pride Month 2026…
The ‘frugal North’ myth is tearing Europe apart
Europe’s favorite economic myth is making its problems worse Chris Kremidas-Courtney Last month, “frugal” Europe went to war with Spain.…
Europe has a plan for big tech, but no plan for Bardella
Europe is spending €300 billion to free itself from undemocratic control of its digital infrastructure. It has not yet considered…
Curated reality: how AI is reshaping human agency
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney Today, Big Tech is shaping the environment in which human choices are made by defining the menu…
The Holy Roman United States
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney There is a persistent temptation in American commentary to compare Washington to Rome. Doing so implies grandeur,…
Without Solidarity, Freedom Fails
Chris Kremidas-Courtney We Americans like to tell ourselves a comforting story; that our deepest political value is freedom. Freedom of…