Category: Books
Claim of 10,000-year-old Tibet library find not worth paper it’s written on
By: AAP FactCheck A Facebook post claims that secret manuscripts uncovered in a Tibetan monastery detail more…
The Downfall of Subcontinent’s Princely States
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States By John ZubrzyckiHurst 337pp £25 order from bookshop…
Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer
Mosab Abu Toha in the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Palestine is a story away.”…
Simone de Beauvoir on The Ethics of Freedom
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) wrote The Ethics of Ambiguity in 1948. In many ways, it can be…
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
by JAMES CLEAR in The New York Times (NYT): The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced…
21 Lessons For the 21st Century By Yuval Noah Harari
“Just as Yuval Noah Harari had envisioned”, wrote Mani Shankar Ayar in The Week in…