Noema Magazine

Noema is a magazine that investigates the significant changes occurring in our world today. We feature essays, reports, interviews, videos, and artwork that cover the interconnected areas of philosophy, geopolitics, economics, and technology. Our distinctive approach encourages us to step beyond traditional boundaries and engage with various disciplines, social groups, and cultural perspectives. From topics like artificial intelligence and climate change to the future of democracy and capitalism, Noema Magazine aims to provide a deeper insight into the critical challenges of the 21st century. The term "noēma" comes from ancient Greek, meaning “thinking” or the “object of thought.” This reflects our goal to thoroughly explore the vital issues shaping our world, offering historical context to foster new ideas that daily media often overlooks. In a time of rapid social transformation, there is an urgent need for innovative concepts and frameworks to understand the future we are entering. Noema is published online and in print by the Berggruen Institute and evolved from a previous publication known as The WorldPost, which initially collaborated with HuffPost and later with The Washington Post. We share insightful, thorough, and adventurous articles from both internal and external contributors. While we are dedicated to using journalism to promote a more sustainable and fair world, we remain neutral and do not advocate for any specific national, economic, or political agenda.

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The Good Society Department | NOEMA

3 weeks ago | noemamag.com | John Last

Credits John Last is a freelance journalist based in Padua, Italy. The advent of the phrase “everything but the kitchen sink” is often placed during World War II, when it connoted both an all-encompassing bombardment and the desperation of those under attack trying to save their possessions from impending doom.
The Cult Of The American Lawn | NOEMA

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Oliver Milman

Credits Oliver Milman is a New York-based journalist and environment correspondent for The Guardian. When Janet and Jeff Crouch sought to enliven their front yard in suburban Maryland with native black-eyed Susans, Joe-Pye weed, asters and coneflowers, they had no inkling that they were doing anything controversial. “It was a garden full of life and color,” Janet told me. “It was beautiful.” Her sister advocated for native plants and encouraged them to think about pollinators and avoid pesticides.
Politics As Soulcraft

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. When in post-war memory has a presidential address to the U.S. Congress not invoked the epic struggle between democracy and autocracy, with a nod now and then to social justice? Donald Trump has broken that pattern here, as with so many other norms.
Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are)

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Michael Levin

Credits Michael Levin is a distinguished professor and the Vannevar Bush chair in the biology department at Tufts University, as well as the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University.
How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMA

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Matthew Ponsford

Credits Matthew Ponsford is a London-based writer and researcher. Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to see it from a few hundred paces away. Its trunk is 36 feet around and its canopy stretches for almost three bus-lengths. Its broad, bowl-shaped crown is propped up by a ring of metal columns, like walking sticks measured to fit each of its groaning boughs.
Strengthening The Connective Tissue Of Democracy

1 month ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. The connective tissue of democracy has seriously decayed in recent years as trust in impartial institutions hits rock bottom and the public square splinters into social media silos. As one reparative response, California has introduced a first-in-the-nation online public platform to help bridge silos and mend the breach of distrust between the public and the institutions of self-government.
Looking Ahead To The 19th Century

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. The rules-based liberal international order, underwritten and guaranteed for decades by American might, has been consigned to the ashcan of history by the summary defection of its founding architect from its terms and premises. After only one month in power, Team Trump has fundamentally broken ranks with the long-standing orthodoxy of the Washington establishment on almost every front.
The Shrouded, Sinister History Of The Bulldozer | NOEMA

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Joe Zadeh

Credits Joe Zadeh is a contributing writer for Noema based in Newcastle. According to an 1881 obituary in a Louisiana newspaper, the word “bulldozer” was coined by a German immigrant named Louis Albert Wagner, who later committed suicide by taking a hefty dose of opium dissolved in alcohol. Little else is recorded about Wagner, but his term became a viral sensation in late 1800s America, going from street slang to dictionary entry in just one year.
Trump As Sovereign Decisionist

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Nathan Gardels

Credits Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. As President Donald Trump unfolds his agenda, two theories of strong governance from the pre-liberal world order fit his instincts like a glove. In justifying his barrage of rapid-fire executive orders and tariff proclamations as an urgent response to a “national emergency,” the hyper-active commander-in-chief brings to mind the Weimar-era of conservative legal scholar Carl Schmitt.
A Radical New Proposal For How Mind Emerges From Matter | NOEMA

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Sally Adee

Credits Sally Adee is an author and freelance science writer living in London. Her book, “We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds,” was published in 2023. Photographs courtesy of the Eden Project. From a snarl of roots that grip dry, shallow soil, the knobbly trunk of an ancient olive tree twisted into a surprisingly lush crown of dense, silvery-green leaves.