Author: DPstaff

Monday Poem: Morning of Drunkenness

O my good! O my beautiful!Atrocious fanfare where I won’t stumble!enchanted rack whereon I am…

Inside Project 2025

James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump…

If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?

By Vanessa Bates Ramirez at Singularity Hub: Things we used to have to pay a…

Great Thinkers and Their Clutter

Samira Ahmed in New Humanist: There is a painting of the late Peter Higgs, the Nobel…

One Memorable Speech Can Turn Around a Faltering Campaign − How Nixon Did it With His ‘Checkers’ Talk

W. Joseph Campbell at The Conversation: Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political…

Can a Word have an Existential Crisis?

By Edwin L. Battistella at OUP: A while back, a philosopher friend of mine was…

80 Bicycles and the Poor Clerk

by Habib Khan, Quetta: Within the first couple of years of my joining the Cadbury’s…

Sunday Poem: Hundred Flowers Blossom

I went to the woodsbirds talked with musictheir marriagesand a tree laceratedits trunk, offered me…

Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’?

From The Free Press: A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles,…

Tackling the Riddle of Free Will

Emily Cataneo in Undark: IT’S 1922. You’re a scientist presented with a hundred youths who, you’re told,…

Yuval Noah Harari: One of the Most Powerful Forces in History is Human Stupidity

Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic

by Tom Cox at The Villager: In my experience, it is the people who seem…