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…