Month: February 2024
Where Western and Indian Philosophy Meet
Schopenhauer is not a reliable guide to the Upanishads. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in IAI on Comparing Western…
Why Truman Capote Spared Katherine Graham
The real reason Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Truman Capote’s guest of honor at the…
The Atlantic Ocean is Headed for a Tipping Point
Once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within…
Five ways Imran Khan’s party used technology to outperform in elections
By Uzair Younus in the Atlantic Council: Pakistan’s electorate made themselves heard on February 8,…
Remembering Peasants
Jeremy Harte at Literary Review: …peasants will soon be as extinct as the aurochs and…
When Democracy Ails, Magic Thrives
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical…
The Trouble With Old Men
Samuel Moyn in Granta: Gerontocracy is as old as the world. For millennia, to greater…
Elections 2024: What the Intl. Media Had to Say
Dawn.com looks at some of the reporting and analysis from across the globe on the…
Politics in a Burning World: Beyond Mere Survival
Rithika Ramamurthy and Ajay Singh Chaudhary in Non-Profit Quarterly: “Beyond Mere Survival”: A Conversation with…
Elections in Pakistan: Adil Najam Shares His Views
Adil Najam is a Pakistani academic, former Vice Chancellor @LifeAtLUMS (Pakistan). Presently, he serves as…
What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
Nora Bradford in Quanta: Whenever you’re actively performing a task — say, lifting weights at…