Strategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux…
Bangladesh: “The Quota Movement is Simply the Tip of the Iceberg”
Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as…
Omar Khayyam’s Aramgah (Resting Place)
Habib Khan, Quetta: Some say that the Scientist and the Poet Omar Khayyam were two…
Sunday Poem: We Have Said So Many Goodbyes
by Annika Ziff Glueck (age 12): for my grandmother lost to Alzheimer’s Today we remember…
It Feels Like the Entire 1 Pct is on the Move in Search of Lower Taxes—and a Taste of the Good Life
By Elena Clavarino at Air Mail: With a Trump presidential victory looking surer by the…
Solzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in…
The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors
Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form,…
Saturday Poem: Dear Future Self
If I should ever forget you,this is my love note to you You were lovedYou…
Why Voters Everywhere Are Fed Up With Incumbents
by Ian Bremmer in Time Magazine: With so many elections in big countries this year,…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Address (1978)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation…
Decolonising Psychology
by Rami Gabriel at Aeon Magazine: In recent years, psychology has come under attack as…