Nadeem F. Paracha: Pakistan’s “Useful Idiots”

by Nadeem F. Paracha at Dawn: Numerous books have been written on Islam in Pakistan….

Wednesday Poem: Ghazal For Brevity

A mantra sets in with just one word.A dream can end with just one word….

The Kamala Gamble

Michael Baharaeen at The Liberal Patriot: Joe Biden rocked American politics over the weekend with…

Martin Luther King and Philosophical Personalism

by Bennett Gilbert at Aeon: On 25 March 1965, the planes out of Montgomery, Alabama…

Vlog: Why Dhaka is on Fire

An opinion on the complexities behind the recent riots in Dhaka and the historical and…

Tuesday Poem: Ars Poetica

She took me home—or what I thought was home,but was in fact a hell she…

Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence

by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River…

How ‘Classical’ Music Was Revolutionary

by Joel Sandelson at Aeon: We habitually associate literary realism with things like down-to-earth subject…

Bounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human

By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars…

Monday Poem: “The Not Knowing Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-Lopez

7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in Border Patrol custody is identified… Each day I open…

Writing is a Monologue With the Self; There is Nothing Between the Person and the Page.

by Rafia Zakaria at Dawn: ONE of the best gifts an artist — in this…

We Smashed Up the World: On Noam Chomsky

by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us…