Author: DPstaff

‘Think Tanks are a Groupthink Community Called The Blob’

The Ideas Letter: In an infamous profile several years back, Obama national security advisor Ben…

The Rain Shadow Effect

Tomas Pueyo at Uncharted Territories: I’ve discussed this in the past, and you might have…

Searching for My Pakistani Identity

From Broken Mystic: It started off funny. I was at the mall buying a birthday…

AI Reveals Huge Amounts of Fraud in Medical Research

Sham papers are compromising research, testing trust as new detection tools powered by AI lift…

Delta

The ‘delta’ between the two mind-sets will maintain the equilibrium in the status quo, and…

The Anxious Generation

A social psychologist and a Professor discuss the end of the play-based childhood and the…

Thursday Poem: Untitled

From ‘You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me‘ Late one night in my officeone…

Why Do Authoritarians Win?

Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues. William E. Scheuerman…

‘Hamay Kho Kar’ (ہمیں کھو کر) Song By Runa Laila

نغمہ = ہمیں کھو کر بہت پچھتاؤ گے جب ہم نہیں ہونگیں. فلم = احساس…

Free Speech Is Under Attack in the U.S., But It’s on the Ropes Elsewhere

“Even open democracies have implemented restrictive measures” If you think free speech is under attack…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer Reveals How the Best Communicators ‘Click’

Charles Duhigg, a New York Times best-selling author and writer for the New Yorker, talks…

Wednesday Poem: My Brother Buries His Dog

by Chris Green: He moves furniture for a living, oversized bureaus and beds for the…