I don’t know whether the English language has an equivalent for the Italian idiom ‘compete at who has the longest dick’. Your phrase ‘pissing contest’ somehow misses the juvenile futility of such a behavior, which unfortunately is something you experience very often...

I must thank Georgia Attlesey of the Institute of Arts and Ideas for suggesting the below video, in which Coco de mer founder Samantha Roddick expresses one concept that is bound to seriously rock the foundations of your world view. As a matter of fact, she introduces...

Whatever your opinion is on the whole Wikileaks affair, there is very little doubt about the historical importance of private Manning’s actions. The public release of morally questionable institutional documents forced the world into discussing pressing issues such as...