Two Speeches, Two Americas
Jonathan Weisman in The New York Times: On Tuesday night, a triumphant Donald Trump looked out on an adoring crowd at his seaside mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. He evoked
PEW Survey: How Americans View 10 Major Issues
President Joe Biden is delivering his third State of the Union address tonight, his last before the 2024 election. Here’s a look at public opinion on some of the key
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Was Trump’s Nomination Always Inevitable?
As recently as a year ago, less than half of Republican voters named Trump as their preferred candidate. A year later, the rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is
What to Do About the Coming Economic Uncertainty Due to AI
The economic uncertainty posed by AI is likely to come very fast and is not well-understood or easily predictable, at least in any detailed manner. But it is quite predictable
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How to Enjoy Your Problems
Accepting your problems is one thing. To enjoy them? Well, that’s pretty much enlightenment. Chelsea Harvey Garner in Psyche: As a therapist, I’ve found that so much of what I
‘Artificial Intelligence’ is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
by Joseph Shieber: Discussions of artificial intelligence are hard to avoid. A recent Pew study, for example, found that 90% of Americans have heard at least something about artificial intelligence
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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 rights…There isn’t really a difference in kind in what the dictators and political activist mobs
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Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza
Mishra is an Indian author based in the West and a staunch supporter of Israel’s victims. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the author
Decoding the Ever-evolving Relationship of US and Pakistan
Friends today, foes tomorrow? Touqir Hussain writes at Dawn: Soon after the results started pouring in following the Feb 8 general elections in Pakistan, several members of the US Congress,
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The Moral Act is the Free Act
How freedom and morality are intertwined Dana Dragunoiu at the IAI: We think the consequences of our actions are key to whether they are morally right or wrong. However, for
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 brain is not a computer. Robert Epstein’s essay in Aeon: No matter how hard they
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Inventing Hindu Supremacy
Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British colonial India in which