Category: USA
‘Think Tanks are a Groupthink Community Called The Blob’
The Ideas Letter: In an infamous profile several years back, Obama national security advisor Ben…
Searching for My Pakistani Identity
From Broken Mystic: It started off funny. I was at the mall buying a birthday…
The Anxious Generation
A social psychologist and a Professor discuss the end of the play-based childhood and the…
Free Speech Is Under Attack in the U.S., But It’s on the Ropes Elsewhere
“Even open democracies have implemented restrictive measures” If you think free speech is under attack…
State of the Art
From “Sources of Life,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Point….
Trump Sells Bibles; Evangelicals Sell Their Souls
David Horsey in Seattle Times: P.T. Barnum, the great 19th century showman, circus owner and hoax…
Anyone Advocating Neoliberal Policies is Now Persona Non Grata in Washington, D.C.
Post-neoliberals are having a moment. If it continues for too long, the result could be…
Who Gets to Buy a Home?
by Nikita Stewart in The NY Times: Every year, the Real Estate section of The…
Photography’s Shooting Star
Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless…
Americans Views of Foreign Alliances Growing Increasingly Divided
Kerry Boyd Anderson at Arab News: Today, as the world shifts from a unipolar world…
2024 Solar Eclipse
The word “eclipse” actually comes from the Greek word meaning “abandonment”. A once-in-a-lifetime event, the…
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Daniel Boguslaw at The Intercept: Anat Schwartz had a problem….