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From Poetic Outlaws: In religious literature the word ‘truth’ is used indiscriminately in at least three distinct and very different senses. Thus, it is sometimes treated as a synonym for
Continue readingAldous Huxley: On Truth and the Nature of Spiritual Reality
Shared by Jawaid Ahmed of Back2School Forum, ISB: تعلیم کیا ہے؟ دوسری جنگ عظیم کے اختتام پر یہ خط نازیوں کے ایک حراستی کیمپ سے ملا تھا۔ یہ اساتذہ سے
by Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: I wrote a speculative article in 2000 on what I called “the political trilemma of the world economy.” My claim was that advanced forms
From The Free Press: The writer Jonathan Rosen looks back at a portent of the future. … Continue readingWhat September 11 Revealed
What is a novel, or any work of art, but the product of its time, of commerce? What is it but another colorful consumer unit… … Continue readingThe War on Genius: Literature and Its Systems
Shared by Aftab Rizvi: ۱۶ دسمبر ۲۰۱۴ کو پشاور ارمی پبلک اسکول پر ایک دھشتگردی کی کاروای میں ۱۳۲ بچے اور ۹ اساتذہ شہید ہو گہے تھے۔ یہ تحریر کچھ
Continue readingArmy Public School Shaheed’s Letter From Heaven
Sam Stein at The Bulwark: OF ALL THE REFLECTIONS offered by lawmakers on the school shooting that left four people dead at Apalachee High School this week, one from Sen.
Continue readingSchool Shootings: This is an Epidemic, Not a Series of Unique Tragedies
Niall Ferguson at The Free Press: According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper is “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” I had never heard of Cooper
James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please!: A 2016 economists survey found a whopping zero percent disagreeing with the idea that allowing “many more immigrants with advanced degrees in science and engineering”
by Jay Solomon at The Front Page: Hardly a day goes by without a reminder of that fact. Yesterday, it was the news out of Ukraine, where two Russian missiles
Jonathan Portes in The Guardian: In the immediate aftermath of this summer’s riots, what did the British public consider to be the most important issue facing the country? Immigration, the polls said,
Continue readingWhy We’re Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong
Jennifer Szalai in The NYTimes: One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document. … Continue readingThe Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?