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No Muslims in My Backyard?

DPstaff August 6, 2024August 6, 2024

Christian Britschgi at Reason: On Sunday, The New York Times published an in-depth look at a development battle in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, where a local farmer’s plan to sell his

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Why Have So Many Cultural Practices Survived Without Written Records?

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by Helena Miton at Aeon Magazine: You can’t speak like they spoke. You can’t farm like they farmed. You can’t dance, or heal wounds, or greet people like they did.

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A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning

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Erik Gleibermann in LA Review of Books (LRB): HUMAN BEINGS ARE autobiographers by nature. Whether or not we ultimately write down any words, we can’t help mentally composing narratives out

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Bangladesh Protests: Street Art (Video)

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Shared by Dr. Farooq Bazai:

Tuesday Poem: What the Fish Say

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My godson wanted to go look at fish but I told him, today, beauty is canceled.We cried. I felt bad. I counted the unbeautiful like broken ribs.Shrapnel in the olive

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Report From the Weeds

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by Mike Bendzela at 3 Quarks Daily: Today is a bit of an experiment. I take the row covers off of two forty-foot rows of beans (three varieties) as the

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If You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger One

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Peter Beinart at The Beinart Notebook: Given the growing chance of a regional war in the Middle East, our guest will be one of the best analysts of Palestinian and

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Is Pro-Natalism Weird?

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From the Wisdom of Crowds: The new Democratic strategy is to refer to Trump’s GOP as “weird.” Because pro-natalism is becoming an increasingly hot topic, one that’s usually associated with

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A Journey Into Rebel-Held Myanmar

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By Charles Petrie at Neom Magazine: I was making the trek into Myanmar to get a sense of how communities were organizing themselves in the vacuum created by the retreating

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Monday Poem: Paragon

DPstaff August 5, 2024August 5, 2024

To eat sweet corn straight offthe cob, just shucked—no one ever told me I could do that, likeno one ever. Another daythe world seems too full of protocolsboiled and buttered

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The Endless Wait: Biharis’ History of Exile

DPstaff August 4, 2024August 4, 2024

by Harmain Ahmer in Dawn: Following the ‘Fall of Dhaka’, the non-Bengalis in Bangladesh were subjected to ‘denationalisation’ by the Government of Pakistan, as the government did not allow non-Bengalis

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When Humanity Stopped Looking Backward, it Started Moving Forward

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James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please: Part of my (quite popular!) recent essay “Why no Industrial Revolution in ancient Rome, Greece, or China?” deserves more explanation. I note in passing that

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