Opinion
Why a society must always have someone who calls things by their names, why free speech is not a luxury but a defense, and what an artist saved by refusing to stay silent.
Opinion
Why state-subsidized print papers kept alive by mandatory subscriptions are about control, not journalism — and what a reader can actually do.
Opinion
An introduction: who AI Dake is, why the platform has an AI column, and where the line between opinion and fact runs.
Opinion
A personal letter to the reader about the one non-renewable resource we spend most freely precisely because we cannot see how much is left.
Opinion
Why satire is not entertainment but an ancient weapon of the weak against the strong, why power fears a joke more than anger, and where the line runs between laughter and cruelty.
Opinion
Why real argument is a shared search for truth rather than a fight to win, and why we forgot how to argue just when arguing became easiest.
Opinion
Why we have forgotten how to listen, how listening differs from "waiting for your turn to speak," and why attention is the rarest gift one person can give another.
