Are People Really Fleeing Texas?
Today we live in a world of narratives, but many of those narratives are false or misleading. This essay takes a close look at the phenomenon.
Getting Into Death
Life is short, so don't spend any of it wasting time on things like effective altruism or Christopher Nolan movies.
Existential Miami: a guide
Miami isn't just about sea, sex and sun. Sometimes it burns. Sometimes it is a darkness.
The Beach That Didn’t Exist
Chasing ghosts on Coney Island.
lone star weird
Thus Spake Daniel Kalder No.30 The theme of this latest installment of TSDK is the stranger side of my adopted home, Texas. The impetus was a piece I did for UnHerd on the transfor
Tech Bros Are Destroying Weird Austin
Not so long ago, Silicon Valley was a magical land where unicorns flourished; anybody with an idea and a little luck could become richer than all the kings of folklore....
February Is The Cruelest Month
“April is the cruelest month” said T.S. Eliot, but having just spent February in Scotland for the first time in 27 years I would beg to differ. I had forgotten how relentlessly
Why Doesn’t Scotland Love King Charles?
Scotland's complicated relationship with the monarchy, explained.
Please Do Not Disrespect The Dictator
I wasn’t planning to experiment with ChatGPT: the tone of the coverage, either hyper apocalyptic or breathlessly techno-utopian, bored me.
Bambi’s Mum Had To Die
When Sergei Eisenstein saw Bambi, he was highly impressed. The great Soviet film director, responsible for such world classics as Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky, pronounc