Author: DPstaff

Bringing More Smart People to America

James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please!: A 2016 economists survey found a whopping zero percent disagreeing…

Thursday Poem: In Reply

Tell me, Rock, do you thinkmy mother misses feeling gravity’s sly tugas she lifted her…

The World is a Dangerous Place Right Now

by Jay Solomon at The Front Page: Hardly a day goes by without a reminder…

Why We’re Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong

Jonathan Portes in The Guardian: In the immediate aftermath of this summer’s riots, what did the…

The Contours of Trauma

Mary L Trump at The Good In Us: Since Voices Carry, to one degree or…

What is Space Made of? An Astrophysics Expert Explains all the Components – from Radiation to Dark Matter – Found in the Vacuum of Space

Nilakshi Veerabathina at The Conversation: Space, or outer space, is a vast, near-perfect vacuum largely…

Wednesday Poem: Cut Into Two

Cut into twolike a cake andblown away so swiftlyas candles blown. my thoughts though weptwater…

The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?

Jennifer Szalai in The NYTimes: One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.

Matt Taibbi, Abigail Shrier, and Andrey Mir on the New Censorship at Home and Overseas

by Oliver Wiseman at The Free Press: X, formerly Twitter, is now banned in Brazil….

Edward Abbey: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Who was Edward Abbey? Edward Abbey was a firebrand of a writer, a renegade desert rat with an anarchist’s heart, a part-time

The Great Reset: Global Government & Digital Currency by 2030?

According to Wikipedia, The Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by…

When Art Is All That Remains

Wars and crises tend to reveal the true, unrivaled power of art, which is often the last redoubt of freedom in the face of the suffering that such politicians cause.