, [Dopo l’inchiesta di Wu Ming 1 dell’ottobre scorso , che a sua volta aggiornava un lavoro avviato più di vent’anni fa quando ci chiamavamo Luther Blissett , riprendiamo il discorso sulle teorie del complotto e su come affrontarle, ospitando su Giap una miniserie in tre puntate scritta da Selene…

Illustration by Koren Shadmi When was the last time you thought of the internet as a weird and wonderful place? I can feel my anxiety climbing as I try to find current news stories about sex. Google News shows one lonely result for "porn," an article that is 26 days old. I log out of everything and…

On a warm September night in 1931, three men went for an after-dinner walk on the grounds of Magdalen College, part of Oxford University. They took a stroll on Addison's Walk, a beautiful tree-shaded path along the River Cherwell, and got into an argument that lasted into the wee hours of the…

It is early in the morning and my alarm has just gone off. I roll over, my eyes not yet open, and reach for my devoted companion—my iPhone. It has laid quietly beside me on the nightstand all night. I am so thankful for its silence, having just ended a relationship with someone whose snores kept me…

How will they remember this in 20 years? Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Europe Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Europe Most critiques of online activity and social media are neither rigorous nor helpful — by which I mean, they do not adequately explain why spending so much time online…

Fabrizio Santoro Feb 15 Fra tutti i trafori ferroviari dell’arco alpino, quello del Fréjus è il più vecchio, il più acclive, e il più accidentato. Inaugurato nel 1871 , dopo che i lavori iniziarono nel 1857 dietro agli incoraggiamenti del Cavour e ai finanziamenti del fu Stato sabaudo, esso è…

We’ve got to talk about Tolkien’s map of Middle-earth. The man might have made up some beautiful languages and written stories that generations of writers have responded to in ways ranging from homage to bad photocopy, but I’m going to guess he was no connoisseur of geography. Even at an early age,…

Non è facile parlare di Alessandro Baricco. Adorato da una buona fetta di lettori in Italia, viene più o meno disprezzato dagli altri: per la sua inconfondibile prosa baricca , per il suo eclettismo intellettuale - romanzi, saggi, teatro, la scuola di scrittura - probabilmente anche perché è bello,…

Polish nationalists march in November 2017.Photograph: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images T he idea of Europe is in peril . From all sides there are criticisms, insults and desertions from the cause. “Enough of ‘building Europe’!” is the cry. Let’s reconnect instead with our “national soul”!…

P lastic is everywhere, and suddenly we have decided that is a very bad thing. Until recently, plastic enjoyed a sort of anonymity in ubiquity: we were so thoroughly surrounded that we hardly noticed it. You might be surprised to learn, for instance, that today’s cars and planes are, by volume,…

Not too long ago Julian Lage put out a lovely little record called Arclight . It’s an album inspired by an appreciation for Telecasters that dates all the way back to Lage’s days as an 8-year old prodigy and grew deeper with his acquisition of a ’54 Blackguard. He toured most of the summer…

«There is no Alternative» M. Thatcher Dunque, riassumendo: è andato in pezzi un certo patto tra le élites e la gente , e adesso la gente ha deciso di fare da sola. Non è proprio un’insurrezione, non ancora. È una sequenza implacabile di impuntature, di mosse improvvise, di apparenti deviazioni dal…

George Fullerton (left) testing a Stratocaster in the Fender factory, sometime in the mid-to-late 1950s. Photo courtesy of Richard Smith. Many places deserve to be called the birthplace of rock ’n’ roll. Memphis often gets the nod because that’s where Sam Phillips of Sun Records recorded Elvis…

Je songeais à tout ce qui s'était passé d'humain, de trop humain, en regardant par la fenêtre du bâtiment où j'avais posé mon sac. Assis dans l'escalier, je voyais au loin l'étang et supposais dans la verdure la digue où Bossuet et Rancé se sont promenés en se montrant si doués pour la politique…

Dans mon lit étroit placé sur le fil d'un rasoir entre deux néants, le sommeil ne vient pas. La nuit est là, dehors, mais pas dedans où, bien que tout soit éteint, il luit dans mon âme matérielle une lumière qui irradie mon intelligence et l'énerve. Rien qui soit une vision, aucun signe de…

Saint Paul a montré l'exemple en inaugurant le premier autodafé catholique ; Rancé l'a suivi, non pas dans la lettre, il n'a pas mis le feu aux bibliothèques, mais dans l'esprit : en privilégiant le travail manuel harassant et épuisant contre le travail intellectuel épanouissant et édifiant. Cette…

Rancé a passé la moitié de sa vie à la vivre, l'autre moitié à la mourir. Avers et revers d'une même vie, l'abbé libertin fut libertin, puis abbé. Plus précisément : libertin, puis moine, ce qui n'est pas la même chose. Car le moine veut plus et mieux baiser la bouche de la mort au quotidien que le…

Rancé fut un abbé libertin qui, un jour, devint un moine emblématique dans l'ascèse. Il fut la vie débridée ; il devint la mort incarnée. Il a vécu vivant dans la vie pendant quarante années ; puis il a vécu vivant dans la mort pendant trente-quatre autres années. Au total, il a accumulé…

Dans le monastère, on vit seul bien qu'on se trouve en groupe. La vie de cénobite est faussement communautaire, elle est une somme de solitudes qui s'additionnent pour faire une plus grande solitude que seule comble et trouble la présence de Dieu. Mais quand on ne croit pas à cette présence ? Il ne…

Le philosophe, auteur du Traité d'athéologie , s'est enfermé à l'abbaye de la Trappe, le temps de lire Vie de Rancé , la biographie que consacra Chateaubriand à cet abbé libertin devenu le champion de la « stricte observance ». Le Point publie la première partie de ce feuilleton de sept épisodes, à…

29 ottobre 2018 10:15 Seconda puntata di un’inchiesta in due parti sulle teorie del complotto. La prima si può leggere qui . QAnon alla Casa Bianca Il 31 luglio 2018 una folla entusiasta ha accolto Trump a Tampa, Florida, indossando magliette di QAnon e alzando cartelli con scritto “Noi siamo Q”.…

15 ottobre 2018 10:00 Prima puntata di un’inchiesta in due parti sulle teorie del complotto. La seconda si può leggere qui . Fuoco sul quartier generale (di YouTube) Il 20 settembre 2018 l’Fbi arriva a Cave Junction, un piccolo centro dell’Oregon occidentale che ha poco più di mille abitanti. Gli…

Shooting high During the climb Honnold averaged a blistering 100 vertical feet every seven and a half minutes. To capture each move, Chin and the crew rappelled to key spots along the route. In the diciest sections, they set up remote cameras to avoid disrupting Honnold’s concentration. Honnold…

L’Italia è percorsa in lungo e in largo da più 35mila chilometri di grandi metanodotti di trasporto a lunga distanza, invisibili sotto città campagne foreste, insensibili a terremoti e altri eventi. Il Tap (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) che molti contestano e che il Governo ha appena riconfermato è un…

It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind. The headquarters of A.P. Møller-Maersk sits beside the breezy, cobblestoned esplanade of Copenhagen’s harbor. A ship’s mast carrying the Danish flag is planted by the…

Losing Earth Prologue Part One Part Two Epilogue Thirty years ago, we had a chance to save the planet. The science of climate change was settled. The world was ready to act. Almost nothing stood in our way — except ourselves. Editor’s Note This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history,…

Esattamente 60 anni fa lo studioso americano Edward Banfield pubblicava un saggio che, ancor oggi, potrebbe – forse dovrebbe – costituire il punto di partenza per qualunque discussione su qualunque argomento in Italia: Le basi morali di una società arretrata . Banfield si era posto l’obiettivo di…

The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight. Illustration by Gérard DuBois In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In…

Tutto questo non potevamo aspettarcelo: complottisti al governo, antivaccinisti alla sanità; sottosegretari dell’interno che non credono alle missioni lunari ; la sfiorata nomina a presidente Rai di un giornalista che ha diffuso notizie sul satanismo di Hillary Clinton . Tutta questa paranoia non…

At twelve-forty-five on Thursday night, unable to sleep, the climber Alex Honnold got out of bed, picked up his backpack, and walked across the street from his hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey, to a sixty-nine-floor luxury apartment building called the Urby. Honnold hid his Candlewood Suites room…

Even with a question mark my title, Do Boys Have a Comparative Advantage in Math and Science, is likely to appear sexist. Am I suggesting the boys are better at math and science than girls? No, I am suggesting they might be worse. Consider first the so-called gender-equality paradox, namely the…

Povero Foucault passato di moda, “La volonté de savoir” l’han già scontato tre volte e sta ancora lì. “Les Temps modernes” di Sartre e Beauvoir, un euro a numero nella Braderie, i saldi di fine stagione, su ebay non li trovi a meno di 10. E pure il Valéry dei “Varieté”. C’è Toni Negri nello scaffale…

T he great French mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) took a particular interest in the origins of his own astonishing creativity. His achievements were impressive: His work profoundly reshaped mathematics and physics—including laying crucial foundations for Einstein’s theory of…

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Analytics issue on newsstands Feb. 22. SUBSCRIBE TODAY » CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Five weeks before his 50th birthday, Michael Jordan sits behind his desk, overlooking a parking garage in downtown Charlotte. The cell phone in front of him buzzes with potential…

Alexander Gauland in a Bundestag meeting in February Axiel Schmidt / Reuters BERLIN—What happens when you do a primetime interview with a far-right leader—but don’t ask them anything about refugees? German television viewers found out Sunday night when the broadcaster ZDF ran a major interview with…

La montagna come zona depressa, luogo in cui portare lavoro, ricchezza, turismo: a questa narrazione semplificatoria abbiamo sempre prestato attenzione e posto critiche alle false soluzioni: eliski, nuovi impianti di risalita, eventifici d’alta quota, eccetera. Le montagne sempre più sono ridotte a…

When a teen's symptoms of depression improve as a result of treatment, it's more likely that their parent's mood lifts, too, new research shows. Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images An estimated 12.8 percent of adolescents in the U.S. experience at least one episode of major depression, according to…

A ll through a long life I had three main concerns, with a clear order of priority. Family came first, friends second, and work third.” So writes the pioneering theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson in the introduction to his newly published collection of letters, Maker of Patterns . Spanning about…