Author: DPstaff

What If Trump Is Right About America?

Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: It’s time to ask some hard questions about ourselves….

Nigeria: ‘Corrupt Leaders Have No Tribe But United By Common Greed’

By Greenbarge Reporters: Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukayode, has…

Saturday Poem: Another Night in the Ruins

1In the eveninghaze darkening on the hills,purple of the eternal,a last bird crosses over,‘flop flop,’…

Call for Ban on Rs5,000 Banknotes

–The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce (OICCI) has called for a ban on Rs5,000 banknotes…

The Year of Singing Politically: Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Sweden

By Philip V. Bohlman at OUP: Welcome to the show. Let everybody know I’m done…

Translating is Like X-raying a Book. You Get a Deep Tissue Read.

Hephzibah Anderson in The Guardian: Sam Taylor, 53, was living in rural France with four…

Why the OpenAI Team In Charge of Safeguarding Humanity Imploded

Sigal Samuel at Vox: For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about…

“The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction”

Soni Wadhwa in the Asian Review of Books: Detective fiction in the West is often…

The Art Of Ed Ruscha

“Dead Serious About Being Nonsensical” David Platzker at Artforum: Ruscha’s avant-garde proclivities surfaced in his…

Friday Poem: Radio

I think I forgot to turnoff the radio whenI left my mother’swomb In Hasidic Judaismit…

Working the System: For or Against Democracy

Mary L Trump at The Good in Us: The system which, depending on your perspective,…

Learning to be Happier

Bruce Hood at Aeon: My own tutee students, whom I met on a regular basis,…