David Andersson

A Siloist Perspective | RSS.com As media coverage focuses on bombs, destruction, and escalating violence, it reinforces an immediate and narrow reading of the conflict. Yet beneath this surface lies another dimension: the Iran war is not only an event,…

Recovering a Forgotten Legacy People often argue about the present by appealing to the past—history, tradition, identity. But what if the figures we inherit were not meant to anchor us in what has been, but to help us move toward…

Talk presented as part of Pressenza’s panel titled “Nuclear Weapons, Existential Threats, and Journalism: Looking to the Future” during the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America CIESPAL, in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Nuclear weapons have…

This interview with Peter Geffen is part of an ongoing series exploring one of the most pressing questions of our time: how do we find meaning in a world that seems increasingly unable to offer it? Two recent articles—Meaning of…

Listen to the AI Brief Signs of the Future: Building the Train Before the | RSS.com We could argue that we are living in one of the most absurd moments in human history — a time when we – as…

In the previous essay, I traced a recurring pattern across continents: when inherited systems fracture and abstraction proves insufficient, philosophy leaves the safety of theory and enters public life. The journalist-philosopher reappears in moments of crisis. If that pattern holds,…

It is absolutely mind-blowing how the Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran are being presented and justified. We are fed the same set of excuses on an endless loop: nuclear proliferation, regional security threats, the corruption of the Iranian regime,…

In the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus came to embody a rare but decisive intellectual figure: the thinker who refuses abstraction and enters public life through journalism, essays, and political engagement. Their originality lay not only in their…

On the same day, two things happened that had no direct connection—but when I thought about them together, I began to see a relationship  that wasn’t obvious at first. The first concerned artificial intelligence. AI does not experience what it…

I recently watched an episode of The Graham Norton Show. Two actresses were asked to select a man from the audience. One chose a modest, kind-seeming bank employee who liked soccer. The other chose a sharply dressed man who openly…