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From Google to NVIDIA, today’s tech giants were not grown by capital alone; they were grown by leaders who instilled a dream in their employees. A look at Silicon Valley through the concept of transformational leadership.
Like a tree uprooted and planted in other soil, the migrant arrives in a new country physically their age, yet starts again in language, status and past. The post-2016 wave of migration shows how this new beginning can be accelerated.
Explaining the rise of the far right in Germany through politics alone falls short. The issue lies in the fear of people who feel forgotten. The author argues that the answer lies not in fear but in confidence.
The story of the girl who would not water down the milk takes place in a single night but has been told for centuries. Remaining fair where no one is watching is still the most critical test of politics and government today.
A leader is expected to be strong and humble, decisive and attentive all at once. Paradoxical leadership is the art of balancing these contradictory expectations of politics.
The history of humanity is the history of migrations. From the journey of the Jewish people from Babylon to Europe to the Hijra and the migration of the Turks to Anatolia, every migration breaks the shell of the old identity and begins a new birth.
“If need be, I’ll sell lemons” has given way to “I’ll become a cashier”. On the debate over the lieutenants expelled from the Turkish army, from the pen of a writer who lost his job by emergency decree: the value of labour and the loss of merit.
Security is no longer only a matter for states but also for individuals’ quality of life and status anxiety. The author argues that the “order of chaos” produced by the lust for power is itself a security problem.
On the first anniversary of the earthquake, a letter written from a tent among the ruins to a family that was lost. A personal testimony of grief, neglect and loneliness.
A letter to a friend with whom the author took his oath at the Military Academy, who has spent years in prison because he was where he had been ordered to be on the night of 15 July.
Children who froze to death under the rubble, who went out to buy bread and never came back, who could not get treatment because their father was in prison. A lament written in their voices.
What happens if there is no state? Haneke’s film “Time of the Wolf” and the tent days after the 1999 earthquake point, after the 2023 earthquakes, to the need for a new social contract.
“My name is Conscience. I am under the rubble in Turkey.” An essay that tells, in the voice of conscience, of the delayed aid, the soldiers who did not come and the rescue teams who arrived too late after the earthquake of 6 February.
Although those dismissed by emergency decree come from every part of society, they are branded with a single label. The author draws attention to a silent society and to ongoing social exclusion.
The advice to “send positive messages to the universe” is spreading fast on social media. The author questions the shallowness and social effects of movements that attribute everything to energy and thought frequencies.
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