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Raghuram G. Rajan at Project Syndicate: There is a buzz in India today – a sense of limitless possibilities. India has just overtaken its former colonial master (the United Kingdom) to become
Continue readingThe Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future
Maggie Hennefeld at Psyche: As I argue in my new book, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (2024), fun-loving women were being terrorised into believing that their unrestrained
Continue readingWhy was a Laughing Woman Seen as Lethal, Not Least to Herself?
By Taylor Downing at Air Mail: General Hans Cramer was a German officer of the formal, Prussian school. Strict, proud and rigid, he did not take kindly to surrendering. Forced
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s end. S’bu Zikode and Richard Pithouse in the Boston Review: Richard Pithouse: Mandela was released from prison
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde; The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. —Laozi; Many a doctrine is like a window pane.
There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphilland the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadowsnear a meetinghouse abandoned by the persecutedwho disappeared into those
John McWhorter writes in Persuasion: Donald Trump is incapable of meaningful participation in such an event. Only in the sense that “match” can apply to both chess and mud wrestling
Continue readingPresidential Debates Have Outlived Their Usefulness
Talking Points from an editorial in Dawn: –Pakistan is in a debt trap.–It must borrow more to pay back its existing debt–domestic and external loans both.–The country’s debt stock has
Veronique Greenwood in Harvard Magazine: IN THE LATE 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time counting calories. An anthropology graduate student at Harvard, she was studying whether cooking changed the
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history, was shot dead on the rooftops of Medellín. He had escaped 16 months earlier from La
Jeremy Horpedahl in The City Journal: The Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances contains several revelations about the state of the American economy. First, it found that the average American household’s net worth
By Fabiana Chaparro, CNN: The finding surprised researchers from the National Park Service, the University of California at Davis and the US Geological Survey, who conducted tests at 75 locations
Continue readingRivers in Alaska are Turning Orange. The Reason Surprised Even Scientists.