Inside Project 2025
James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump announced his administration’s signature policy on the administrative state—the constellation of agencies, institutions, and procedures
If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez at Singularity Hub: Things we used to have to pay a lot for are now cheap or even free—think about how much it costs to buy
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Great Thinkers and Their Clutter
Samira Ahmed in New Humanist: There is a painting of the late Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, that hangs in a science building at the University of Edinburgh. It
Can a Word have an Existential Crisis?
By Edwin L. Battistella at OUP: A while back, a philosopher friend of mine was fretting about the adjective “existential.” She was irked by people using it to refer to
Frida Kahlo’s Painting ‘The Wounded Table’ Vanished in 1955. The Hunt For it Continues.
by Paulina Olszanka at Air Mail: During her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo began work on a masterpiece that gave voice to her anger at the infidelities
Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic
by Tom Cox at The Villager: In my experience, it is the people who seem most adamant that they know the correct way to live, and are most keen to
The Magical Thinking That Sustains Our Humanness
by Anna Badkhen at Aeon Magazine: Amadou is always tapping into a global knowledge of what keeps us alive, a people’s pharmacopoeia honed over millennia. When we first met, in
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Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell
Bradley and Casey Luskin in Evolution News: In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England (pictured above) has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life.
Philosophy Was Once Alive
Pranay Sanklecha at Aeon: ‘Why did you decide to study philosophy?’ asked the Harvard professor, sitting in the park in his cream linen suit. ‘Because I want to find out
The Problem With Pakistan’s Police
by Mahar Murrawat Hussain in Dawn: “You are men and women of violence,” proclaims Dave Grossman, a retired military officer, to eager police trainees in the award-winning documentary Do Not
Why Conscious AI Would Experience Beauty
Åsmund Folkestad at Extra Medium Please: Over several years now, a single question has refused to leave me: what is beauty? Triggering it was a series of aesthetic experiences so
Quotable Quotes of Iranian Thinker Ali Shariati
Shared by Hasham Siddiqui, ISB: The writings of the Iranian thinker, Dr. Ali Shariati, who was assassinated in Britain in 1977. Consider some of his wonderful descriptions of the reality
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