Why Friendships in Big Cities Don't Stick
Why adult friendship in a big city is harder to start than student friendship was, and why what you build on purpose ends up being deeper than what came for free.
May 7, 2026 Viktor Stojanov
The Thursday Problem
Men aren't losing friends because they won't open up. They're losing the weekly reason to show up. The male friendship crisis is an infrastructure problem, not a character one.
April 19, 2026 Colloquies Team
The Questions Nobody Asks Anymore
We've turned 'how are you?' into a greeting instead of a question. Research shows that the quality of our friendships depends on whether anyone bothers to ask what they actually mean.
April 19, 2026 Colloquies Team
The Friendship Recession Nobody Warned Us About
What the friendship recession is, why adults have fewer close friends than at any point in 30 years, and what the research says about why it's still getting worse.
April 8, 2026 Colloquies Team