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…