Future Critics do not exist yet. They arrive at doorsteps, email inboxes or soapboxes at very specific moments. Those moments always have something in common: they are tipping points. The drops that make the bucket run over. Tipping points happen quite suddenly but still they…

There exists an English 1960 translation of Rudolf Steiner's 1895 book about Friedrich Nietzsche called 'Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom'. This title was translated from German, Friedrich Nietzsche, ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit; A Fighter Against His Time. But in 1960 A Fighter Against His…

Researcher Donald Hoffman calls it a headset, biophysicist Wilhelm Reich called it a sieve, Plato called it a cave wall, the Buddhists and Hindus called it ‘Maya’ and the Quran called it ‘The Lowest Heaven’. They point to the timeless knowledge that the world of…

Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people were sitting down, watching the shadows on the wall created by the fire and the signs behind them. The shadows were all they had ever…

In these increasingly surrealistic times, public discourse is highly focused on trying to discern which political leaders, public figures, influencers and billionaires are Good and which ones are Bad. To this problem, the well-known teacher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) offered a practical solution. Steiner warned against…

In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, Vrouwenpolder, in the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. Ten years later, on June 17, 1831, government officials took him to the Ommerschans slave labor camp…