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From Unlearning Economics Live: Dr Ingrid Kvangraven, a senior lecturer in International Development at King’s College London. Ingrid specializing in dependency theory, a branch of scholarship that emphases that poorer
I can’t escape the possibilityI was meant to own a Zambonibut got stuck with three can openers instead.Or that I should have kissed your knees last night when you got home from
M.V. Ramana at Literary Hub: I am scared about how fast climate change is disrupting our world. At a theoretical level, I have known for decades about growing carbon dioxide
Continue readingWhy Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Rahul Bhatia in The Guardian: Running a finger over a row of books in a Delhi library one afternoon, I stopped at a title that promised danger. The stacks were
Continue reading‘Nobody Knows What I Know’: How a Loyal RSS Member Abandoned Hindu Nationalism
by Erik Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective: There’s a saying on the internet: “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.” People like to say this saying. Here’s Elon Musk
Within, without the cosmos wide am I;In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.A birthless, deathless Spirit that moves and is stillEver abides within to hear my call.
by Shams Zaheer Abbas @ FOCUUS: Hasina Wajid (HW) cannot be compared with Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari. It is an insult to compare Hasina Wajid with Marium Safdar
Continue reading“Hasina Wajid’s Blunders are Similar to What’s Happening in Pakistan Now”
by Robert Muir-Wood at OUP: Who was Charles Darwin the geologist? Was he a nephew, or maybe a cousin, of the illustrious naturalist, who first published the theory of evolution
J.D. Tuccille at Reason: Asked this week by Fox News’s Shannon Bream to respond to the Biden administration’s proposed restrictions on the Supreme Court, as well as a constitutional amendment
Continue readingJustice Gorsuch Warns Biden To ‘Be Careful’ With Attempts To Control Supreme Court
Rick Perlstein at The American Prospect: I felt similar déjà vuwhen Republicans started calling Kamala Harris a “DEI hire.” The charge is as old as the civil rights movement itself.
Continue readingCrow Jim: Project 2025’s Obsession With Reverse Racism
Above the lakes, above the vales,The mountains and the woods, the clouds, the seas,Beyond the sun, beyond the ether,Beyond the confines of the starry spheres, My soul, you move with
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: The brain is like a medieval castle perched on a cliff, protected on all sides by high walls, making it nearly impenetrable. Its shield is the
Continue readingHow a Mind-Controlling Parasite Could Deliver Medicine to the Brain