Author: DPstaff
Sunday Poem: A Litany For Survival
For those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial…
Can a War Ever Be Just?
Phil Klay shares his views at Wisdom of Crowds: Morality and War: Two words that…
Say Hello to AI Steve, the AI Chatbot Running for Parliament in the UK
By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: It’s a year of elections, and the internet is…
How Autocrats Weaponize Chaos
By Michiko Kakutani in Time Magazine: The confluence of multiplying political, economic, and social crises…
Javed Jabbar: Individuals, More Than Institutions?
Published in the May 20204 Issue of South Asia Magazine: While the well-established view about…
‘In Two Minds’: Callie Siskel Reflects on the Ghost of Her Famous Father
By J. Howard Rosier at Poetry Foundation: The legacy of the deceased may truncate one’s…
The Life and Death of Hollywood
Daniel Bessner at Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena…
Saturday Poem: To an Unread Poet
I used to read your poemsbut lately you don’t writeyou’re silent and aloofyou know that…
Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: When it comes to protecting animal species, you would…
American Cricket Found a Star. He’s a Silicon Valley Tech Worker.
Pranshu Verma in The Washington Post: Saurabh Netravalkar finds it hard to log off Slack. But…
Shikarpur’s Balconies and Brackets
by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro at Youlin Magazine: I have been documenting Shikarpur’s cultural heritage since…
Further Thoughts on the Dawning Era of Right-Populist Politics
Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: My previous post was an attempt to make…