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by Adele A. Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: Many decades ago, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity of living in India for several years. I was enthralled by
Continue readingThe New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century
by Erik Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective: IN THE SUMMER after they graduated from college, Kierk and Mike—friends, classmates, and intellectual competitors in many late-night dorm-room debates—had gotten into Mike’s
Continue readingThe Riot in Toronto: An Excerpt From The Revelations
by Erica Good at the Undark: Many years ago, I read a book about neurosurgery by a journalist who had undergone an operation for a brain hemorrhage. One anecdote is
Continue readingGray Matters: A Neurosurgeon’s Inside Look at the Brain
Sreevas Sahasranamam at The Conversation: I originally got introduced to Azeem Azhar, the English journalist, startup founder and investor, through his podcast and newsletter, Exponential View. My research and teaching
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Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico at Commonweal: We’re publishing these exchanges just about every two weeks—a compressed timeline that somehow seems like an eternity amid this summer’s news cycles. Thankfully,
From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Radical Democracy
Continue readingTejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India
Tina Jordan at The New York Times Book Review: The sketch above appears in a recent book I find particularly fascinating: Jane Rosenberg’s DRAWN TESTIMONY: My Four Decades as a
“The Killers” is a short story by Charles Bukowski in his 1973 collection, South of No North. Bukowski, greatly influenced by Hemingway… … Continue readingA Passage From “The Killers”
Historian Richard J. Evans discusses his new book with Jim Kelly, explaining why top Nazis came from the middle class, whether a new Hitler is possible, and his love for Babylon Berlin … Continue readingBritish Historian Richard J. Evans on Today’s Authoritarian Leaders, and His New Book, Hitler’s People
Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis: Because of this renewed sense of urgency to deal with the philosophical and political underpinnings of the technological future, it is well worth
M.V. Ramana at Literary Hub: I am scared about how fast climate change is disrupting our world. At a theoretical level, I have known for decades about growing carbon dioxide
Continue readingWhy Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Erik Gleibermann in LA Review of Books (LRB): HUMAN BEINGS ARE autobiographers by nature. Whether or not we ultimately write down any words, we can’t help mentally composing narratives out