Author: DPstaff
The Scientific Origins of Racism
by Jacob Zellmer at Aeon: Imagine for a moment that tomorrow we find humans on…
Quotable Quote: ‘Wickedness’ and ‘Stupidity’
Shared by Ishaq Saqi, ISB: “Both wickedness and stupidity walk the street more confidently when…
Is Harvard Antisemitic?
Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: WHEN HAMAS TERRORISTS attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and…
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200
Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent…
Monday Poem: Ghazal For Grandmother
My grandmother kept a suitcase, hard & roundedlike a deep pink shell. I used to…
The Kennedys And The Women They Destroyed
Louis Bayard at The NY Times: In the opening sentence of her rage-swollen “Ask Not,”…
Murder in Hollywood
In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who alleged that Cary Grant fathered her…
Does Embracing Local Customs Help Immigrants Feel at Home?
by Ljiljana Radenović at Psyche: On 28 August 1999, I landed in Toronto, Canada, from…
The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Fitzroy Morrissey at Literary Review: Shortly before his death in 1974, R C Zaehner, Spalding…
Julian Assange is Finally Free – But Should Not Have Been Prosecuted in the First Place
Ken Roth in The Guardian: Julian Assange’s lengthy detention has finally ended, but the danger that…
A Wife’s Revenge from Beyond the Grave
From The Free Press: In October of last year, Free Press reporter Francesca Block came…