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Poem: Torture | by Wisława Szymborska
Nothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, it must eat and breathe air and sleep, it has thin skin and blood right underneath.
Can We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?
Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner.
The Hidden Forces That Guide Us
Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement.
Poem: Thanatopsis | by William Cullen Bryant
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours…
Ubuntu: ‘I am I When We Are’
Couple of years ago, the then Vice Chancellor of Balochistan Univ. of Info Tech. Engg. & Management Science (BUITEMS) Dr. Farooq Bazai…
Arundhati Roy on Gaza Genocide
Roy said she “refused to play the condemnation game” by creating “moral equivalence” between Israel and Hamas…
Why Didn’t Ancient Philosophers Eat Meat?
The religious and ethical debates surrounding animal sacrifice in ancient Greece and Rome, abstinence from animal food.
Ulalume: A Ballad
What better way to usher in Halloween than to read a poem by the master of gothic horror—Edgar Allan Poe?
Social Democracy, Immigration and the Working Class
Ahmari grapples with Sunkara’s argument that social democracy lost worker support by prioritizing capital interests…
The Surprising Power of Piet Mondrian’s Lesser-Known Early Paintings
Approaching the age of twenty, Mondrian painted his most impressive painting to date. It was a still life of a dead hare.
India is a Postcolonial Power. Its Rule in Kashmir is Colonial.
India’s ongoing subjugation of Kashmir holds portentous lessons about the nature of contemporary colonialism.
The Demographics of a Trump Victory—Or Defeat
Examining current demographics of the Harris coalition and comparing them to demographics of Biden’s 2020 coalition provides a window…