Putin On Piano, and His Walk (Video)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an impromptu piano rendition before meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the first day of...
Month: June 2022
Robots Write Pretty Good Poetry
Will T. at The Believer: Let’s consider where AI poetry is in 2022. Long after Racter’s 1984 debut, there are...
The Democracy of the Future
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: In The Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States and The End of Nation-States, I explain...
The Invisible Citizen: Why the Absence of Muslim MPs and MLAs in India’s BJP Party is Disturbing
Mahua Moitra writes in The Indian Express: In about a month’s time, the BJP, the self-proclaimed “largest political party in...
The Black Hole (Short 2008)
Black Hole is a British film: A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole late one night, photocopies it...
‘We Need to Talk About Asian American Mental Health’
Dr. Jenny Wang, author of Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans (Balance, May 2022), says that...
Franz Kafka: The Drawings
George Prochnik at Literary Review: Wispy, thick, swirled and streaking, the dark lines burst outward, racing or splintering. The strongest...
‘Napalm Girl’ at 50: The Story of the Vietnam War’s Defining Photo
Oscar Holland at CNN: The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining image not...
THE DEMOCRATIC PARADOX: Nearly All Democracies Uptil Now Have Been Democracies in Name Only
The right to say anything has been a challenge to every democracy that has ever existed By Zac Gershberg and...
9000 Years Ago People Went In and Out Of Their Houses Through Openings In The Roofs
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES: Houses of Çatalhöyük (Reconstruction) - modern-day Konya, Turkey, c. 7,000 BC. The Mud-brick houses were clustered...
