Author: DPstaff
Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River…
How ‘Classical’ Music Was Revolutionary
by Joel Sandelson at Aeon: We habitually associate literary realism with things like down-to-earth subject…
Bounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars…
Monday Poem: “The Not Knowing Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-Lopez
7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in Border Patrol custody is identified… Each day I open…
We Smashed Up the World: On Noam Chomsky
by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us…
Strategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux…
Bangladesh: “The Quota Movement is Simply the Tip of the Iceberg”
Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as…
Omar Khayyam’s Aramgah (Resting Place)
Habib Khan, Quetta: Some say that the Scientist and the Poet Omar Khayyam were two…
Sunday Poem: We Have Said So Many Goodbyes
by Annika Ziff Glueck (age 12): for my grandmother lost to Alzheimer’s Today we remember…
It Feels Like the Entire 1 Pct is on the Move in Search of Lower Taxes—and a Taste of the Good Life
By Elena Clavarino at Air Mail: With a Trump presidential victory looking surer by the…
Solzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in…