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Pagan Signs

Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears… In a 2009 report for The Guardian, writer and broadcaster Cole Moreton speculated that paganism was “beginning to look like” the UK’s “new national faith.” At the time, there were reportedly a quarter of a million people who identified as practicing pagans—more than the number of Buddhists and almost…

Enjoy the Moment

Mobile devices have become the medium through which we experience our world and ourselves, but what are we missing when we try to record every experience?

Narnia Reveals the Best Kind of Nationalism

What does it mean to love one’s country in a world where every social and political debate is heightened to a mini-apocalypse, and the very ideas of nationalism and patriotism are often deemed evil?

In Pursuit of Pure Northernness

“If you’re wearing a jacket, you might want to take it off. It will get hot in here.” We’re sitting in a circle in a dark room with two dozen others. A magician has promised to show us a great wonder: liquid fire from a hundred miles or more beneath the earth’s surface. I’m still wondering if this…

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