Ideology v. Art. Make Art Not War.
From the Wisdom of Crowds: The novelist Phil Klay came on Wisdom of Crowds back in June to talk about morality and war. This month, he’s taken on art and
The Rise of South Asian America: Everywhere You Want to Be
by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning (Part 1 of 2): A few years ago, a friend working on Capitol Hill observed that during the Trump administration, the Democratic political staff
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British Historian Richard J. Evans on Today’s Authoritarian Leaders, and His New Book, Hitler’s People
Historian Richard J. Evans discusses his new book with Jim Kelly, explaining why top Nazis came from the middle class, whether a new Hitler is possible, and his love for Babylon Berlin … Continue readingBritish Historian Richard J. Evans on Today’s Authoritarian Leaders, and His New Book, Hitler’s People
Memoir: Whirling Roomi
Habib Khan, Quetta: When I was a child I used to hear my Dad sing a Persian poem:چہ تدبیر اے مسلمانان کہ من خود را نہ می دانم نہ ترسا
Do Rich Countries Keep Poor Countries Poor?
From Unlearning Economics Live: Dr Ingrid Kvangraven, a senior lecturer in International Development at King’s College London. Ingrid specializing in dependency theory, a branch of scholarship that emphases that poorer
Crow Jim: Project 2025’s Obsession With Reverse Racism
Rick Perlstein at The American Prospect: I felt similar déjà vuwhen Republicans started calling Kamala Harris a “DEI hire.” The charge is as old as the civil rights movement itself.
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How a Mind-Controlling Parasite Could Deliver Medicine to the Brain
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: The brain is like a medieval castle perched on a cliff, protected on all sides by high walls, making it nearly impenetrable. Its shield is the
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Is Pro-Natalism Weird?
From the Wisdom of Crowds: The new Democratic strategy is to refer to Trump’s GOP as “weird.” Because pro-natalism is becoming an increasingly hot topic, one that’s usually associated with
Sudan and the Silence of the Activists
Nesrine Malik in The Ideas Letter: Some 20 years ago, the Darfur region of Sudan was in the throes of a brutal war against rebel African groups protesting their economic
Alan Cowell on Using Pigeons to File News From a War Zone
by Alan Cowell at the Air Mail: Watching the nano-second messaging of modern electioneering from Washington to Paris to London, I couldn’t help but think of pigeons. Carrier pigeons, to
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Civility Won’t Save Us
Dante Stewart in Time Magazine: America currently finds itself in a storm. A dreadful, at times unbelievable storm. A storm so dire and visceral that it seems to be the stuff of
Thursday Poem: When the Sun Settles
I only write at nightThe dark seems to illuminateThoughts not given the time of day –by DAF at Hello Poetry