Author: DPstaff

The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors

Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form,…

Saturday Poem: Dear Future Self

If  I should ever forget you,this is my love note to you You were lovedYou…

Why Voters Everywhere Are Fed Up With Incumbents

by Ian Bremmer in Time Magazine: With so many elections in big countries this year,…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Address (1978)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation…

Some Climate Experts Say Carbon Removal Start-ups Will Limit Global Warming, But Significant Questions Remain

By Ramin Skibba at Undark: On April 11, a small company called Graphyte began pumping…

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

By Sven Bilén at Singularity Hub: When I was in middle school, my biology teacher…

Friday Poem: ‘Grasshopper’ – by Irshad Salim

when lilies in pond diesnakes move inwhen snakes swirl outrats move inthe house withrodents micesants…

“I Fixed the New York Times’ Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza”

Assal Rad at Zeteo: When a poll in March showed that only about half of…

How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism

Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left…

Lessons From Singapore – Nothing To Lose

by Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: For a strange five minutes in 1994, Americans…

Thursday Poem: ‘Metropolis With Ghazal’ by Siddharth Dasgupta

Come walk with me through the bones of this bustling city.Time hedges its bets in…

A Little-understood Fact: There’s Not That Much Wealth in the World

Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Most economic debates are about income, not wealth. When we talk about…