Author: DPstaff
Tuesday Poem: A Life Spent Reading
There is no shortage of good days.It is good lives that are hard to come…
Tejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India
From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political…
Sunday Poem: War and Peace
“These are “poems” I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme…”
Memoir: After all a Special Project
Habib Khan, Quetta: Saindak has been the first Copper Gold project much before Reko Dik…
Why Plato Was Drawn to the Eleusinian Mysteries
For Plato, rationalists and mystics can walk the same path. He turns to the Eleusinian Mysteries to explain his ideas about knowledge.
200 Days and Still No Justice for Hind Rajab
It’s now been more than 200 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her.
Friday Poem: Adolescence
I sit to see shadows play with dolls of darkness that is light. I sit to think past has passed childhood has lost its ribbon.
Carbon Emissions from AI and Crypto Are Surging and Tax Policy Can Help
Crypto assets and artificial intelligence have one thing in common. Both are power hungry. The climate impact of these activities is cause for concern.
Overconfidence About Sentience is Everywhere—and it’s Dangerous
The Edge of Sentience, rather than offering Houdini-like escapes from uncertainty, is all about how to make evidence-based decisions in the face of uncertainty.
What Populism Is—And Isn’t
Populism, the rule of many, and authoritarianism, the rule of one, might seem like antipoles. But they are intimately related. Wherever populism appears, so do various forms of…
What Your Brain Is Really Doing When Doing “Nothing”
The OEF is defined as the ratio of oxygen used by the brain to oxygen delivered by flowing blood and is remarkably uniform in the awake but resting state…