Thoughts unfit for contemporary survival
Film festivals were invented as propaganda, not out of love for cinema. Ehsan Khoshbakht, curator of Locarno's retrospective on the Hollywood blacklist, on how a small lie becomes a spectacle — and why nobody involved was actually paranoid.
Trump probably has mental health problems. But diagnosing him misses the point — and may do more harm than good. The real issue was always visible: not a clinical condition, but a character that was never fit for power.
Should voting be as easy as ordering pizza? E-voting promises convenience and higher turnout. But paper ballots offer transparency anyone can understand. Sometimes friction isn’t a bug—it’s a feature.
