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by Bennett Gilbert at Aeon: On 25 March 1965, the planes out of Montgomery, Alabama were delayed. Thousands waited in the terminal, exhausted and impassioned by the march they had
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An opinion on the complexities behind the recent riots in Dhaka and the historical and political context that has led to this moment of crisis:
She took me home—or what I thought was home,but was in fact a hell she made for us.We left The Sound of Music with the fussthat I was making, working out my
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River Neckar)” is Iqbal’s ode to silence. A short lyric poem, it describes a rare personal
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by Joel Sandelson at Aeon: We habitually associate literary realism with things like down-to-earth subject matter, plausible detail and convincing chronology. For the ancients, though, realism had just the opposite
By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars have urged that the 1970s and 1980s were too harsh in their judgment of humanity.
Continue readingBounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in Border Patrol custody is identified… Each day I open class with a morning circle.Nineteen 7- and 8-year-olds siton a colorful rug. Talk abouttheir favorite
Continue readingMonday Poem: “The Not Knowing Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-Lopez
by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us almost a month ago, but he always told us not to trust the media! It
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux and flow, trade and transfer. The species’ newest ideas, goods and indeed citizens shuttle ceaselessly
Continue readingStrategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as simply a demand for more jobs. The quota movement, justified as it is, is simply
Continue readingBangladesh: “The Quota Movement is Simply the Tip of the Iceberg”
Habib Khan, Quetta: Some say that the Scientist and the Poet Omar Khayyam were two different people with the same name, living in the same period, while others argue that
by Annika Ziff Glueck (age 12): for my grandmother lost to Alzheimer’s Today we remember you.And will always remember you,Even though we said many goodbyesThese past years. Goodbye to the