Remembering Peasants
Jeremy Harte at Literary Review: …peasants will soon be as extinct as the aurochs and Irish elk. In western Europe, the proportion of the population employed in agriculture now stands
When Democracy Ails, Magic Thrives
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking Samuel Clowes Huneke in Boston Review: On August 31 (2020) President Trump told Fox News host
The Trouble With Old Men
Samuel Moyn in Granta: Gerontocracy is as old as the world. For millennia, to greater or lesser degrees, it has been the default principle of governance, from ancient Greek city-states
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 elections that were, contrary to the pre-poll predictions, anything but predictable: The Guardian — The
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Politics in a Burning World: Beyond Mere Survival
Rithika Ramamurthy and Ajay Singh Chaudhary in Non-Profit Quarterly: “Beyond Mere Survival”: A Conversation with Ajay Singh Chaudhary” Rithika Ramamurthy: I want to talk about the central concept of your
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Elections in Pakistan: Adil Najam Shares His Views
Adil Najam is a Pakistani academic, former Vice Chancellor @LifeAtLUMS (Pakistan). Presently, he serves as the global President of WWF, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, and is Dean Emerıtus and
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200-foot Radio Tower Disappears, Halting Alabama Station Broadcast
Scharon Harding in Ars Technica: A 200-foot AM radio tower has been missing for at least a week, leaving an Alabama radio station in a financial crisis and on a
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Deepfake Scammer Walks Off With $25 Million in First-of-its-kind AI Heist
Benj Edwards in Ars Technica: On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company’s Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million
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Art as Experience: Robert Irwin’s “Untitled (Acrylic Column)”
Morgan Meis writes at Slant Books: Robert Irwin died a few months ago. He was 95 years old, so this was not a great tragedy. I didn’t know the man
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Elections 2024: Form 45 and Form 47
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Convenience Store سہولت اسٹور
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“Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect”
Melanie Ho in the Asian Review of Books: It’s the Australian Mystery Writers’ Festival and debut author Ernest Cunningham is one of the participating writers. Cunningham arrives at the festival—hosted