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By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars have urged that the 1970s and 1980s were too harsh in their judgment of humanity.
Continue readingBounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux and flow, trade and transfer. The species’ newest ideas, goods and indeed citizens shuttle ceaselessly
Continue readingStrategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
By Elena Clavarino at Air Mail: With a Trump presidential victory looking surer by the day, U.S. citizens are buying into golden-visa programs—immigration schemes where individuals can obtain residency in
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in the West after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974, would enthusiastically endorse its
Continue readingSolzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
by Rami Gabriel at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, psychology has come under attack as a racist tool of Western thought. No one can deny that it has been used
Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left who captivated him as a young man — such as Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and
Continue readingHow George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
by Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: For a strange five minutes in 1994, Americans were talking about caning. An American teenager named Michael Fay drew Singapore into the international
by Jo Rodgers at New York Times: Walk down a side street in London’s diamond district and you might catch the scent of frankincense and agar wood as it drifts
Continue readingA London Jeweler Turns to Home Goods Made With Precious Metals
by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Researchers have found that a unique species of marine bacteria is just as effective at fertilizing agricultural soils as mineral fertilizers that are over-applied to
Continue readingFor Sustainable Food Production on Land, We Might Soon be Looking to the Sea
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to the experts, live in autocracies. Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc wants us to see the resemblances
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews in which I take a brief detour into ants and collective behavior more generally. I
Shared by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa (aka Qalandar), California: Mid summer burst … of tomatoes, peppers, and garden herbs. You won’t find it at your local Olive garden Revolutionary Mexican salad
Continue readingQalandar’s Recipes: If it Looks Good It Tastes Good