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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 … Continue readingHenry Miller on Becoming a Writer: “No Daring is Fatal”
Alexander C. Lees at The Conversation: (T)he biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a stark reminder of our failure to arrest the loss of biodiversity
Continue readingNew Report: Wildlife Loss is Taking Ecosystems Nearer to Collapse
Tom Zoellner in the Los Angeles Review of Books: The stories that a country tells itself are just as critical to its functioning as its army, its laws, its borders,
Continue readingIs the United States a Prisoner of Its Own Mythology?
The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms. … Continue readingHow Can Poor Countries Become Rich
Surendriya Rao: “I am an American poet of Indian origin. I heard ghazals sung from a young age, but never thought of them as poetry.” … Continue readingPoem: Yeh Dooriyan (These Distances)
Not all of Alghorra’s photos depict despair, plentiful as it is. In one photograph, a Palestinian teacher is seen drawing on a whiteboard in a makeshift classroom built under a tent. … Continue readingA Palestinian Photographer Reflects on One Year of Life and Death in Gaza
“The economists’ “groundbreaking research” has given us a “much deeper understanding of the root causes of why countries fail or succeed.” … Continue readingHow Colonial History Explains Why Strong Institutions Are Vital to a Country’s Prosperity
This rhyme is thought to relate to Irish beggars who arrived in England during the British genocide which resulted in millions of deaths. … Continue reading‘Britain’s Cover-up of Its 1845-1850 Holocaust in Ireland’
China now produces more than 90% of the world’s photovoltaic-grade polysilicon. Back in 2010, it was a minor player. … Continue readingHow the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China
Today, each one of the assumptions that underpinned western policymaking and journalism for nearly three decades lie shattered. … Continue readingThe Last Days of Mankind
by Lex Fridman at YouTube: The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including Sapiens, Homo Deus
Continue readingYuval Noah Harari on Why Christianity Became Popular
Among the topics discussed is the nature of symbolic capital; whether self interest and political idealism are necessarily contradictory… … Continue readingThe Passion of the Elites