Vlog: Why Dhaka is on Fire
An opinion on the complexities behind the recent riots in Dhaka and the historical and political context that has led to this moment of crisis:
Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River Neckar)” is Iqbal’s ode to silence. A short lyric poem, it describes a rare personal
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Bounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars have urged that the 1970s and 1980s were too harsh in their judgment of humanity.
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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 case, a visual artist — gave me was to show me what she called her
We Smashed Up the World: On Noam Chomsky
by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us almost a month ago, but he always told us not to trust the media! It
Strategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux and flow, trade and transfer. The species’ newest ideas, goods and indeed citizens shuttle ceaselessly
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Bangladesh: “The Quota Movement is Simply the Tip of the Iceberg”
Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as simply a demand for more jobs. The quota movement, justified as it is, is simply
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Why Voters Everywhere Are Fed Up With Incumbents
by Ian Bremmer in Time Magazine: With so many elections in big countries this year, it’s a good time to look at how the politics of democracies are shifting. But
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Decolonising Psychology
by Rami Gabriel at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, psychology has come under attack as a racist tool of Western thought. No one can deny that it has been used
Some Climate Experts Say Carbon Removal Start-ups Will Limit Global Warming, But Significant Questions Remain
By Ramin Skibba at Undark: On April 11, a small company called Graphyte began pumping out beige bricks, somewhat the consistency of particle board, from its new plant in Pine
“I Fixed the New York Times’ Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza”
Assal Rad at Zeteo: When a poll in March showed that only about half of Americans could correctly answer that more Palestinians had been killed in the war on Gaza
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How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left who captivated him as a young man — such as Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and
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