Why Migrants Matter
Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was subjected to disparaging comments because of his migrant status and his Phoenician ethnicity.
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero
Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.
All History is Environmental History
…and that includes both environmental effects on societies and those societies’ impacts on the environment.
The Future of Political Science
Impotence Through Relevance? Faustian Bargains, Beyond Impact and the Future of Political Science.
Ghulam Mustafa On Mathematical Knot
A knot is a circle embedded in three dimensions. Circle is a knot called an unknot. Given a knot, can it be unknoted?
Autocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World provides an incisive exposition and analysis of how autocrats function in the world today…
Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky, the Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy.
Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is Bad Art. But At Least It’s Art.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has inspired much reflection about creativity, commerce, the freedom of the artist and the state of Hollywood.
Poem: Whom I Write For
I write for the young man, demented, who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima; I write for Nasser and Ben Gurion; For Krushchev and…
H.G. Wells ‘Land of the Blind’
Shazia Shazia: In this story, the author tells us about a strange disease – joint disease spread in a remote village isolated from the world.
When Open Palm, Tree Stump and Carpet Spoke
by Arjumand Faisel at Gallery 6: After displaying 90 paintings on diverse subjects for the…
Marshall Plans
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse”