Category: Lifestyle
Strategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux…
It Feels Like the Entire 1 Pct is on the Move in Search of Lower Taxes—and a Taste of the Good Life
By Elena Clavarino at Air Mail: With a Trump presidential victory looking surer by the…
Solzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in…
Decolonising Psychology
by Rami Gabriel at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, psychology has come under attack as…
How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left…
Lessons From Singapore – Nothing To Lose
by Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: For a strange five minutes in 1994, Americans…
A London Jeweler Turns to Home Goods Made With Precious Metals
by Jo Rodgers at New York Times: Walk down a side street in London’s diamond…
For Sustainable Food Production on Land, We Might Soon be Looking to the Sea
by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Researchers have found that a unique species of marine bacteria…
Brothers in Arms or Just Good Friends?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to…
The Ecology of Collective Behavior
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews…
Qalandar’s Recipes: If it Looks Good It Tastes Good
Shared by Dr. Ghulam Mustafa (aka Qalandar), California: Mid summer burst … of tomatoes, peppers,…
Inside Project 2025
James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump…