Israel-Iran Conflict: High Chances of War
Did Iran destroy Israel’s largest Air Base? Big confession by Israel? Some talking points on the global and regional impact of the Israel-Iran conflict, and its emerging scenario: Related article:
The New World (Dis)order
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a bipolar new world order amid disorder, and shared with few observers, analysts for their views.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nukes?
by Ashutosh Jogalekar: As the saying goes, if you believe only fascists guard borders, then you will ensure that only fascists will guard borders. The same principle applies to scientists
Climate Politics & Capitalism: Is the World Enough?
Will Glovinsky at Public Books: It was 1968, and the “battle to feed all of humanity” had already been lost. In the coming 1970s, soaring populations and finite global resources
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What the World Would Look Like After WW3
An insane video (3.3m views) imagines what the world would look like after the next major war shifts the power dynamics and country borders across the globe. It claims the
Never Underestimate the Nation-State
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Decades back, after reading the book ‘Why Nations Fail’, my first take was that “States fail, nations don’t”. My Professor Anthony Kahn laughed initially at my comment.
NATO Without America
Can Europeans shore up their collective defense and security by creating an independent, strongly coordinated defense industrial policy in time to adapt to a possible Donald Trump victory this November?
‘Think Tanks are a Groupthink Community Called The Blob’
The Ideas Letter: In an infamous profile several years back, Obama national security advisor Ben Rhodes sardonically dubbed the think tank community in Washington, D.C. “the Blob.” The name stuck,
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The Anxious Generation
A social psychologist and a Professor discuss the end of the play-based childhood and the rise of the phone-based childhood. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley
Why Do Authoritarians Win?
Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues. William E. Scheuerman in the Boston Review: Democracy seems in bad shape these days. In contrast, its global
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 in the United States—and it is—you should see its besieged status in the rest of
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Your Nationality May Influence How Much You Talk With Your Hands
Brian Owens in New Scientist: People of different nationalities appear to vary in their use of hand gestures, according to a study that seems to reinforce the idea that Italians, in
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