No Matter How Rich You Are, You Can’t Own the Sea

In a world where shipwrecks abound, why are we so obsessed with the Titan and the Titanic ? It’s a combination of panache, prestige, and that classically Greek concept of hubris. Important people went down with both vessels: millionaires, royalty, business tycoons. The splendor of the Titanic ’s Grand Staircase has been rendered in countless painti

Staring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.