The War in Gaza is Creating a Health Crisis That Will Span Decades

Grace Wade in New Scientist: The situation in Gaza is rapidly devolving into the worst humanitarian crisis in modern memory, and international health organizations have no long-term plans for addressing the territory’s post-war needs. More than three-quarters of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, half of whom are children, are internally displaced, trapped in one of theContinue reading “The War in Gaza is Creating a Health Crisis That Will Span Decades”

Shockwaves in the Global Order

While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the Boston Review: Just days before October 7, President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, was radiating confidence that Washington had effectively brought all of West Asia’s long-roiling conflicts under control. Washington could now, he believed, accelerate the pivot ofContinue reading “Shockwaves in the Global Order”

The World’s First Author

Anna Della Subin at the LRB: The​ earliest known author was married to the moon. In the 1920s, in the shadow of an anti-colonial uprising against British rule in Mesopotamia, the archaeologists Leonard and Katharine Woolley dug up the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in present-day Iraq. Near a ziggurat they unearthed evidenceContinue reading “The World’s First Author”