Issue 6: Globalization and COVID-19

The virus vs. the spirit of the age, queer social capital, nuclear weapons, and much more.

Beautiful fact

When, at the end of the Miocene epoch, the clockwise twist of the African landmass closed the straits of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean Sea—cut off from the Atlantic Ocean—almost completely dried up, leaving isolated plateaus which had once been islands rearing above a vast salt plain. It took 600,000 years for the Atlantic to break through …