Photo by Igordoon Primus on Unsplash I watched Broken Glass at The Young Vic last week. The way the auditorium is set up makes you a part of the play, not merely an observer. Case in point: in the climax when Phillip collapses and the rest are standing around laughing, I had a strong urge to run over and help him up. It makes us feel compassionate towards someone who isn’t easy to feel compassionate towards. Then we get to go home feeling like heroes. We totally would have h

Photo by Shunya Koide on Unsplash The world is shit. Every post I’ve read lately opens with that. Heck, every conversation I’ve had eventually lands here. And I get why. There are wars at a rate unprecedented since before WWII, floods and famine ravage vast areas of the globe, and there’s a worrying trend towards authoritarianism, as if we learned nothing from history . The sheer magnitude of these problems can lead anyone to despair and apathy. What can one person do in the