Society

Unfinished business with some dreamers of the red planet dream

Put your weapons down. The gaming industry has been turned on its head by the de-mocratization of development and distribution tools, paving the way for games as a form of deeply personal art. A new wave of standouts signals the way forward for a mature creative medium.

A creative Berliner looking for a challenge also finds community in post-revolutionary Egypt where chaos is but one story among many.

Three of the most prominent thinkers, doers and observers of society today discuss the second wave of connectivity, post-mass society and the importance of individual curiosity and stroking each other’s coats.

Nick DeWolf (1928-2006) is the omnipresent visual driving force of The Alpine Review. His iconic photography is nested in all three issues and clearly, the magazine would not be the same without his unique, timeless take on the world.

A timeless audio essay by Alan Watts seemed so in-tuned with the current state of the world, we made it into a special insert called "The Process of Life".

Human history is filled with trial-and-error learning and misunderstandings and misclassifications. Dr. Gary Slutkin, founder of CeaseFire, argues that as a society we have been looking at violence and aggression in a naive and outdated way.

How the evolving relationship between insiders and outsiders shapes our institutions.

Lewis Lapham argues that there’s a reason good writing is hard to find on the internet. What is good writing, anyway?