Category: Opinion
Evolution’s New Narrative: Life is a Decentralized, Horizontal Network, Not Merely a Centralized, Hierarchical Tree
David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not…
Civility Won’t Save Us
Dante Stewart in Time Magazine: America currently finds itself in a storm. A dreadful, at times unbelievable…
Jim Harrison: Why I Write
I used to tell students…the difference between poetry and you is you look in the…
Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism
Yascha Mounk at his own Substack: Eitan Hersh is Professor of Political Science at Tufts…
Nadeem F. Paracha: Pakistan’s “Useful Idiots”
by Nadeem F. Paracha at Dawn: Numerous books have been written on Islam in Pakistan….
The Kamala Gamble
Michael Baharaeen at The Liberal Patriot: Joe Biden rocked American politics over the weekend with…
Martin Luther King and Philosophical Personalism
by Bennett Gilbert at Aeon: On 25 March 1965, the planes out of Montgomery, Alabama…
Vlog: Why Dhaka is on Fire
An opinion on the complexities behind the recent riots in Dhaka and the historical and…
Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River…
Bounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars…
Writing is a Monologue With the Self; There is Nothing Between the Person and the Page.
by Rafia Zakaria at Dawn: ONE of the best gifts an artist — in this…
We Smashed Up the World: On Noam Chomsky
by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us…