Is Covid More Dangerous Than Driving?
Benjamin Mueller in the New York Times: “We’re doing a really terrible job of communicating risk,” said Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at
‘Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?’
Marco D’Eramo in his recent article ‘Deglobalization’ published in the Side Bar wrote: “After the phone call between Biden and Xi on 18 March, an anchor on Chinese state television
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Will Russia’s Invasion Fracture the World-System?
Deglobalization by Marco D’Eramo: ‘The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades’. Thus spoke Larry Fink, CEO of
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Pakistan’s Godfathers
TARIQ ALI: Over the Pakistani airwaves, sports commentators frequently groan that the national cricket team – which most people follow with religious fervor – is ‘once again in trouble’. The
A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions
Maria Rubin in The NY Review of Books: IT IS DAUNTING to write a biography of Tolstoy. Hundreds or even thousands of books have already put each detail of his life
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Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet Censorship Campaign is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald in his Substack newsletter: If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous
‘UAE Construction Output To Remain Below 2019 Levels’
Overall, construction output in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expected to remain below 2019 levels until 2023, says the “United Arab Emirates (UAE) Construction Market Size, Trends and Forecasts
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There’s More to Authoritarianism Than Cults of Personality
Krithika Varagur in The New Republic: It’s remarkable: For more than a year, it’s been impossible to describe any world leader as a version of the sitting U.S. president. Run
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If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, What’s Next?
Comment By Jeannie Suk Gersen in the New Yorker: IN 2003, when the Supreme Court held, in Lawrence v. Texas, that criminalizing gay sex was unconstitutional, it insisted that the decision had
About Robaba, Kangina and Religions in Afghanistan (Videos)
Unable to use her hands, arms, or legs, 21-yr-old Afghan artist Robaba Mohammadi has defied unlikely odds in her land-locked country that has faced decades of invasions, seen millions of
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How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
As societies get bigger, we require more and more elaborate and law-like forms of religion to prevent breakdown Matthew Reisz in The Guardian: Robin Dunbar sets out to offer nothing
Austerity and Renewables
A new IMF-approved tax regime is crippling Pakistan’s green energy sector Lee Harris in Phenomenal World: After weeks of rising domestic pressure, a spiraling economic crisis, and the swift loss