Author: DPstaff
Saturday Poem: What Kind of Times Are These
There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphilland the old…
Presidential Debates Have Outlived Their Usefulness
John McWhorter writes in Persuasion: Donald Trump is incapable of meaningful participation in such an…
Points to Ponder
Talking Points from an editorial in Dawn: –Pakistan is in a debt trap.–It must borrow…
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Veronique Greenwood in Harvard Magazine: IN THE LATE 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time…
Thirty Years of Talking About Pablo Escobar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history,…
The Average American Is a Millionaire
Jeremy Horpedahl in The City Journal: The Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances contains several revelations about…
Rivers in Alaska are Turning Orange. The Reason Surprised Even Scientists.
By Fabiana Chaparro, CNN: The finding surprised researchers from the National Park Service, the University…
Friday Poem: ‘Enigmas’ by Pablo Neruda
You asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his…. golden feet?I reply, the…
The Institute of Illegal Images
Erik Davis at The Paris Review: The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in…
Mounting Research Shows That COVID-19 Leaves its Mark on the Brain, Including With Significant Drops in IQ Scores
Ziyad Al-Aly in The Conversation: From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as…
The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
Erica Goode in Undark: AUTHORS DON’T GET to choose what’s going on in the world when…
How the World Made the West
Steven Poole at The Guardian: “Western civilisation” would not exist without its Islamic, African, Indian…