Category: Opinion
Tinubu: Illegal Mining is Major Cause Of Terrorism
By Greenbarge Reporters: President Bola Tinubu has identified illegal mining as one of the major…
How Did America Become a Credit Card Nation?
Sean H Vanatta at Aeon/Psyche: The American economy has always relied on household borrowing. Since…
Lament for the Declining Art of Editing
Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: Journalists have a name for an article written…
Daniel Dennett, a Deep Thinker About What it is to Be Human. R.I.P.
The world has sadly just lost one of its most provocative and inspirational thinkers and…
Decarbonization is the Most Critical Response to Climate Change–But is it Enough?
McKinsey research shows that carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, could play a vital role in…
Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?
by Isaac Grafstein at The Free Press: What, if anything, should we do about TikTok?…
Lord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord…
Irshad Salim: On Baldness
“A Bald Man With Glasses Knows What He’s Doing” Irshad Salim, Karachi: I was reading…
Seymour Hersh: How the Pentagon Engineered a Fake War to Prevent a Real One
JIM W. DEAN intro at The Intel Drop: I had been hoping to see Sy…
The Unfinished Business of Kennedy’s Vision for World Peace
Philip A. Goduti, Jr. in The Conversation: Less than a week after her husband’s assassination…
Should Children Have Smartphones?
Author Haidt: Social Media is Spreading Mental Illness New York Times Book Review: Social psychologist…
A Poem has Secrets that the Poet Knows Nothing Of
at Poetic Outlaws: Stanley Kunitz received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize…