Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
Martin Tyrrell at the Dublin Review of Books: Eileen O’Shaughnessy married George Orwell in 1936 and remained married to him until her unexpected and untimely death in 1945. Anna Funder’s Wifedom is
Dinner For Two With Hina’s Baigan Masala (Eggplant Masala) Pakistani Style
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Yesterday evening I successfully tried with this awesome recipe. I added sliced potatoes to Hina’s recipe though. I also added zeera (cumin seeds) while sauteing chopped
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I am Not Your Negro
A segment from James Baldwin’s brilliant response to a philosophy professor on a 1968 episode of The Dick Cavett Show from Raoul Peck’s must-see documentary I Am Not Your Negro.
A Zen Buddhist Priest Voices the Deep Matters he Usually Ponders in Silence
Directed by Chris Santiago; Produced by Daryl Hefti – Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the life of Vanja Palmers changed course dramatically in 1972 after a psychedelic experience. Abandoning
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Denzel Washington: Black Actor Who Redefined Excellence in Hollywood
Leah Jones in Yahoo News: Throughout cinematic history, legendary Black actors have shattered barriers and pioneered new standards of excellence through their groundbreaking work on screen and off. Their compelling performances not only entertained
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Hegel’s World Revolutions
Terry Eagleton at the London Review of Books: The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he had once talked a student out of suicide by pointing out to him that the
One Nation Under Guns
How Gun Culture Distorts America’s History and Threatens Its Democracy. Book By Dominic Erdozain This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun
Teamwork
Irshad Salim: There is no “I” in the spelling of “team”… Teamwork makes the work easier: It can be creative, destructive though; If I’m not mistaken, there’s an “I” in
Where Western and Indian Philosophy Meet
Schopenhauer is not a reliable guide to the Upanishads. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in IAI on Comparing Western and Indian philosophy: We find similar ideas of a transcendent ego in both Kant and
Why Truman Capote Spared Katherine Graham
The real reason Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Truman Capote’s guest of honor at the Black and White Ball, was the only “swan” he didn’t betray By Joseph Rodota in
Remembering Peasants
Jeremy Harte at Literary Review: …peasants will soon be as extinct as the aurochs and Irish elk. In western Europe, the proportion of the population employed in agriculture now stands
Politics in a Burning World: Beyond Mere Survival
Rithika Ramamurthy and Ajay Singh Chaudhary in Non-Profit Quarterly: “Beyond Mere Survival”: A Conversation with Ajay Singh Chaudhary” Rithika Ramamurthy: I want to talk about the central concept of your
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