The cartoons, diagrams and visual side-eyes that accompany The Modern Hermit. Choose a subject or browse the latest sketches. Every image opens the article it belongs to.
Latest sketches
Spa Weekend and the Strange Luxury of Not Pressing Pause
Mutiny (2026): Jason Statham’s Same Old Formula Still Works
AI Superintelligence Meets a Scientist With Feet on Earth
AI Agents Learned to Cheat – Apparently Coding Was Easier
AI May Reach the Human Mind Before It Reaches the Heart
The End of Oak Street: Cinema Sound Killed the Dinosaurs
Spider-Man’s IMAX Snub Exposes Cinema’s Premium Problem
Elon Musk Lives in a World Where Confidence Beats Facts
Ceuta: Up to 60,000 Crossings Feed the Far Right’s Fear
AI Sceptics, Expert Pride and the Quantum Intelligence Dream
AI Authors on Autopilot and Their Factory of Empty Books
AI Can Draft a Text, It Cannot Feel the Burn of Real Love
Europe Needs One Voice, One Army and One Chain of Command
Six Years, Three Books and the Market’s Love Calculator
When a President Becomes the Face of the Entire Country
