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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis (opens the original)
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Saluto,While on holidays in August, I had a very passionate discussion about that quote above.Apparently the quote isn’t from Dante. It’s John F. Kennedy who popularised it and falsely attributed it to the Italian poet. But I digress. The August discussion around this quote was about what it meant, what neutrality was, and why some people are neutral and others not.So here, I’ll engage with the idea behind this quote, and point to two shortcomings that it h
How the World got together to solve the hole in the Ozone layer (opens the original)
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Saluto,You probably experienced it yourself, but those months of July and August were extremely hot. And it wasn't just an impression. July and August were defined by record land and sea surface temperatures. Just look at this map of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO): <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRr3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3ee
The right to disconnect (opens the original)
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Saluto,This newsletter will be a bit shorter than my usual ones as I am travelling around Greece.My priority will be to reconnect with non-academic books and fried calamari. So you’ll forgive me if I don’t give you any reading suggestions this time.Instead, I’ll just briefly explain something that the French started that deserves to spread to the entire world: the right to disconnect.The idea is simple. New communication tools have eroded the time that we disconnect from work. Emails, messages,
When Is a Power Plant a Military Target? (opens the original)
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Saluto,In a series of tweets made in April of 2026, the President of the United States threatened Iran. Not only did he write things such as “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if his demands in the war are not met.He also made a series of tweets threatening much of Iran’s infrastructure. Tweets like these:<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_2mJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
Why the Palestinian Authority Might Collapse (opens the original)
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Saluto,With the Iran war, Israel’s incursions into Lebanon, and the war in Gaza since 2023, the West Bank has almost been pushed off the radar of international news.However, that does not mean that drastic things aren’t happening there. One of the notable developments is that the Palestinian Authority (PA), the entity governing parts of the West Bank, is at risk of imminent collapse. So this newsletter will give you three articles to understand why the situation is getting worse in the West Bank
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