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For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does. … Continue readingComputers Don’t Actually Do Anything. They Don’t Write, or Play; They Don’t Even Compute.
Umair Javed in Dawn: (T)his amendment carries the element of being person-specific, at least in the current moment. … Continue reading26th Amendment: Drafted Elsewhere, Deliberated by a Select Few, Passed in Supreme Haste
‘The Germans have a phrase for the sense of panic many of us feel when a goal is within our reach: Torschlusspanik’. … Continue readingTracy Calder on Why We Need to Keep Dreaming
Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”. … Continue reading‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
“Our culture today is likely to push you to be a Platonist…this is certainly convenient for businesses and political parties…but it can also…” … Continue readingAre You a Platonist or an Aristotelian?
…and that includes both environmental effects on societies and those societies’ impacts on the environment. … Continue readingAll History is Environmental History
Impotence Through Relevance? Faustian Bargains, Beyond Impact and the Future of Political Science. … Continue readingThe Future of Political Science
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World provides an incisive exposition and analysis of how autocrats function in the world today… … Continue readingAutocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
Noam Chomsky, the Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy. … Continue readingNoam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has inspired much reflection about creativity, commerce, the freedom of the artist and the state of Hollywood. … Continue readingFrancis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is Bad Art. But At Least It’s Art.
by Arjumand Faisel at Gallery 6: After displaying 90 paintings on diverse subjects for the show, I meticulously toured the expansive display area, ensuring each exhibit received its final touches
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse” … Continue readingMarshall Plans