The Enduring Pain of Postcolonial Trauma
Farah Abdessamad at Aeon: In 1952, the 27-year-old Frantz Fanon had just published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks, his controversial and rejected doctoral thesis on the effects of
The Case For Multiparty Democracy
by Jerry Cayford: It’s a book about how our political system fell into this downward spiral—a doom loop of toxic politics. It’s a story that requires thinking big—about the nature
Philosophy is an Art
Peter West at Aeon: Philosophical theories are much more like good stories than scientific explanations.’ This provocative remark comes from the paper ‘Linguistic Philosophy and Perception’ (1953) by Margaret Macdonald.
East vs West: Unveiling Differences & Exploring Life, Philosophy & Poetry
Conversation: Host Naeem Sikandar discusses with @khurramellahiofficial some very interesting topics. Khurram Ellahi is a Ph.D. Scholar in Human Resource Management. He has been working as a motivational speaker while
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“I Watched 15 Hours of COVID Origins Arguments So You Don’t Have to”
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Saar Wilf is an ex-Israeli entrepreneur. Since 2016, he’s been developing a new form of reasoning, meant to transcend normal human bias. His method
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Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
That’s the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s “Countdown”–Barry Gewen, a longtime editor at the NY Times Book Review who retired in 2022,
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Sea and Earth
‘Swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.’ Miri Davidson in Sidecar: The far right wants to decolonize. In France, far-right intellectuals routinely cast Europe as indigenous victim of an ‘immigrant colonization’
It was Like ‘The Twilight Zone,’ But With O.J., it Was All Too Real
Rick Cleveland at Mississippi Today: No telling how many times this sports writer has made the drive back from Oxford to Jackson following some sports event. Hundreds of times for
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Governing the Ungovernable
Jess Bidgood at The New York Times: When members of Congress return to Washington from their home districts, they often trudge to Capitol Hill for a tally known as a
‘Patriot’: Posthumous Memoir By Aleksei Navalny, the Russian Opp. Leader
The NY Times writes: Aleksei Navalny’s memoir, written during the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, will be published in October. Titled “Patriot,” the memoir will
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Reassembling Pakistan
Khurram Hussain at Dawn: MUCH has been said about “reimagining Pakistan” but it is important to understand that task comes the day after. For now, the focus needs to be
Is Techno-Monopoly Inevitable?
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: The detective in a typical British crime procedural would say that Mordecai Kurz “has got form.” An emeritus professor at Stanford University, Kurz received his doctorate