Category: Insight

TWO VIDEOS On Communicating

The quality of communication can erode with too many layers: Try having as few layers…

The Collateral Damage of Queen Elizabeth’s Glorious Reign

In Tina Brown’s “The Palace Papers,” other royals stand and wait, but what purpose do…

Hepatitis B and the Liver Cancer Endgame

Kristina Campbell in Nature: Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths globally —…

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Trevor Quirk at Bookforum on Justin E. H. Smith’s Philosophical History Of The Internet: The…

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

Arundhati Roy’s Lecture at the University of Texas: Before I begin, I would like to…

Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New Colonial World Order

An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing…

‘Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?’

Marco D’Eramo in his recent article ‘Deglobalization’ published in the Side Bar wrote: “After the…

There’s More to Authoritarianism Than Cults of Personality

Krithika Varagur in The New Republic: It’s remarkable: For more than a year, it’s been…

A Theory of Why We’re All Going Nuts Online

Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis: On January 6, 2021, Samuel Camargo posted a video on…

Why Imran Khan’s Govt. Collapsed? Observers Comment.

“Imran Khan’s PTI-led coalition government in Islamabad collapsed due to their excessive reliance on charismatic…

Things Don’t Add Up

ISLAMABAD, MAR 18, 2022 – It all started (in Pakistan) with the “Mehengai” chorus.It was…

‘The United States Can Do Whatever the Hell it Wants’

Reading Arundhati Roy politically: Some of this ideology one can take; much of it one…