One Nation Under Guns
How Gun Culture Distorts America’s History and Threatens Its Democracy. Book By Dominic Erdozain This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun
Hatred Alone is Immortal
Why we should be concerned, above all, with the education of the passions. Alan Jacobs in The Hedgehog Review: Recently I happened to read, in the course of a single
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
William Deresiewicz in Salmagundi: Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A
Pakistan Needs a Plan
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Pakistan is a vast country of 231.4 million people. It’s one of only nine countries in the world with nuclear weapons. It’s located in South Asia,
Is the State Here to Stay?
Jonathan S. Blake in Boston Review: In early 2022, the Economist decried “governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism.” The state was “becoming bossier” and “more meddlesome,” it complained. In fact, the state’s punitive
Bubbles | بلبلے
Scientists say that when a thin sphere of liquid encloses air or another gas, it is called a ‘bubble’. Blowing bubbles has been and is a favorite pastime of many
Where Western and Indian Philosophy Meet
Schopenhauer is not a reliable guide to the Upanishads. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in IAI on Comparing Western and Indian philosophy: We find similar ideas of a transcendent ego in both Kant and
The Atlantic Ocean is Headed for a Tipping Point
Once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows René van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra, and Michael Kliphuis in The Conversation: Instruments
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When Democracy Ails, Magic Thrives
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking Samuel Clowes Huneke in Boston Review: On August 31 (2020) President Trump told Fox News host
The Trouble With Old Men
Samuel Moyn in Granta: Gerontocracy is as old as the world. For millennia, to greater or lesser degrees, it has been the default principle of governance, from ancient Greek city-states
Elections 2024: What the Intl. Media Had to Say
Dawn.com looks at some of the reporting and analysis from across the globe on the elections that were, contrary to the pre-poll predictions, anything but predictable: The Guardian — The
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Elections in Pakistan: Adil Najam Shares His Views
Adil Najam is a Pakistani academic, former Vice Chancellor @LifeAtLUMS (Pakistan). Presently, he serves as the global President of WWF, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, and is Dean Emerıtus and
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