Category: Opinion
Byzantine Regained
Jerry Saltz at Vulture: In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division…
Alexander Calder and the Optimism of Modernism
In the view of renowned US author and critic Jed Perl, Alexander Calder remains America’s…
We’re Focusing on the Wrong Kind of AI Apocalypse
“We need to worry about the many small catastrophes that AI can bring.” Ethan Mollick…
‘To Hell With Poets’ by Baqytgul Sarmekova
Peter Gordon in the Asian Review of Books: How is a reviewer, faced with (yet…
Ten Unsung Digital and AI Ideas Shaping Business
An estimated $30 trillion in corporate revenues will arise from products that have not yet…
Rohingya of the Two Nation Doctrine
A recent podcast with the author of the book “Refugee”–it is centered on the 1971…
‘Think Tanks are a Groupthink Community Called The Blob’
The Ideas Letter: In an infamous profile several years back, Obama national security advisor Ben…
The Anxious Generation
A social psychologist and a Professor discuss the end of the play-based childhood and the…
Why Do Authoritarians Win?
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues. William E. Scheuerman…
“A Passage to India” on Its 100th Birthday
THIS YEAR marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to…
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer Reveals How the Best Communicators ‘Click’
Charles Duhigg, a New York Times best-selling author and writer for the New Yorker, talks…