Category: Opinion
‘Artificial Intelligence’ is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
by Joseph Shieber: Discussions of artificial intelligence are hard to avoid. A recent Pew study,…
Political Correctness: How The Few Try To Rule Over The Many
Real democracy is not just about the rule of the majority, but the rule of…
Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza
Mishra is an Indian author based in the West and a staunch supporter of Israel’s…
Decoding the Ever-evolving Relationship of US and Pakistan
Friends today, foes tomorrow? Touqir Hussain writes at Dawn: Soon after the results started pouring…
The Moral Act is the Free Act
How freedom and morality are intertwined Dana Dragunoiu at the IAI: We think the consequences…
Scientists Will Never Find a Copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the Brain
Because your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your…
Inventing Hindu Supremacy
Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the…
The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
There’s a reason we keep forgetting things, Charan Ranganath -a psychologist and neuroscientist at the…
How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold…
Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is…
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world and that’s because…