Shockwaves in the Global Order
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the Boston Review: Just days before October 7, President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan,
‘Empire: A Ghost Story’ a Talk By Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist whose best known award-winning novel Home Fire is a must read. Shamsie has also been named on Granta magazine’s list
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An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace
About Ali Abu Awwad and Ami Dar: Nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad works to establish international peacebuilding movements. In 2016, he brought his focus to building a national nonviolent movement
An Ancient Warning on the Power and Peril of Rhetoric
John C Brady: In his dialogue Gorgias, Plato drafts a fictional conversation between Socrates and a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and teachers known as sophists, who were famed for their
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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
Teamwork
Irshad Salim: There is no “I” in the spelling of “team”… Teamwork makes the work easier: It can be creative, destructive though; If I’m not mistaken, there’s an “I” in
What is Leadership
Leadership is a set of behaviors used to help people align their collective direction, to execute strategic plans, and to continually renew… Excerpt from a McKinsey article: All leaders, to
Five ways Imran Khan’s party used technology to outperform in elections
By Uzair Younus in the Atlantic Council: Pakistan’s electorate made themselves heard on February 8, when the country held general elections after months of delays. As results came in, it
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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 2024: Form 45 and Form 47
A meme and a cartoon…