I shook hand with a mascot at a the Centaurus Mall in Islamabad one day….

On this bed of chilled steel, I am the morning’s work,your project after coffee and,…

Lying matters. It poisons our discourse, breeds cynicism about government, and makes it difficult to have serious conversations…

Balmurli Natrajan: “Hinduism has many aspects to it that have really nothing to do with Hindutva.”

Project Syndicate: Last year, you suggested that a prevailing “culture of pragmatism,” exemplified by the Association of…

by Eric Schenck at 3 Quarks Daily: The longer you’re in a new country the more it becomes a relationship. It starts out wonderful…

Jonathan Shaw in Harvard Magazine: How does the brain process language—using sounds to form words, and assigning…

Now we are on the ferry we flew to drive to,It’s enormous engines vibrating Every…

From The Week Newsletter: Selected editorial cartoons –this week by Joel Pett; Monte Wolverton; Bob…

“I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. I’ve learned that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

If you are an artist, that means that you are denuding yourself more and more, that by the time you die you are stark naked and your bowels turned inside out. — Henry Miller

Alexander C. Lees at The Conversation: (T)he biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife…