Month: February 2024
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
Martin Tyrrell at the Dublin Review of Books: Eileen O’Shaughnessy married George Orwell in 1936…
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world and that’s because…
In These Dissenting Times
To acknowledge our ancestors meanswe are aware that we did not makeourselves, that the line…
WhatsApp Share: A Video From Gaza
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Back in December, a poetic expression of emotive thoughts on Israel’s…
The Most Famous Equation in Finance
This Black-Scholes/Merton equation, the most famous equation in finance came from physics. It launched an…
How Google Built Its Dominant Web Advertising Business With Acquisition of DoubleClick
Google’s ad revenue is now north of $237 billion –more than the GDP of Greece….
Dinner For Two With Hina’s Baigan Masala (Eggplant Masala) Pakistani Style
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Yesterday evening I successfully tried with this awesome recipe. I added…
I am Not Your Negro
A segment from James Baldwin’s brilliant response to a philosophy professor on a 1968 episode…
US Media Is Collapsing, Here’s How to Save It
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need…
“India is (not) going back into the background anymore. It has arrived.”
Modi’s economy also offers a ‘real alternative’ to China Excerpt of analysis by Diksha Madhok…
The G20 Looks South
Bruno De Conti , Pedro Rossi, Arthur Welle, and Clara Saliba in Phenomenal World: In…
Geopolitics and the Geometry of Global Trade
McKinsey’s Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, January 2024) includes analysis of the changing geometry of…