PEREGRINE PULP

One of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true. — George Orwell, February 1945 The truth is complicated, difficult and not always flattering: but the truth is essential. — Yuval Noah Harari, July 2026 When you are told something like "famine experts raise alarm," it is Alex de Waal to whom folks are commonly referring. He's an anthropologist who studied famine in Sudan in the '80s, starvation as a weapon of war in the '90s

Do you know about Oskar Speck? He was born one of seven children to a woodcutter in a village near Hamburg, Germany in 1907 (a crazy time to have been born there.) Oskar was a schoolchild through WWI and left at age 14, as was pretty typical at that time. He worked selling sacks of woodchips and dung to farmers as the penalties of the Treaty of Versailles came into force and with them hyperinflation of the 1920s followed by the Great Depression. Alongside millions of other Ge

It's time for another reef update as the Australian Institute of Marine Science just dropped their latest summary report of coral reef condition for 2025/26. But first let’s provide some context from a decade ago: So how do things look, now a whole decade after declarations of the apocalypse? Well, coral cover over most of the Great Barrier Reef has increased significantly above long-term averages. Coral cover remained unchanged on most reefs (56%) over the last year, while m

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. — Elie Wiesel Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. — Philip K. Dick If you’re Canadian and you haven’t yet heard about Chief Aaron Pete or his Nuanced podcast, I hope you check out his stuff soon. Not only does this young man have an interesting backstory and a great trajectory but he’s currently having some of the most interesting and important public conversations in the country — one