Vlog: Why Dhaka is on Fire
An opinion on the complexities behind the recent riots in Dhaka and the historical and political context that has led to this moment of crisis:
Tuesday Poem: Ars Poetica
She took me home—or what I thought was home,but was in fact a hell she made for us.We left The Sound of Music with the fussthat I was making, working out my
Goethe, Iqbal, and a Mysterious Ode to Silence
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Aik Shaam,” “An Evening (By the River Neckar)” is Iqbal’s ode to silence. A short lyric poem, it describes a rare personal
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How ‘Classical’ Music Was Revolutionary
by Joel Sandelson at Aeon: We habitually associate literary realism with things like down-to-earth subject matter, plausible detail and convincing chronology. For the ancients, though, realism had just the opposite
Bounded Rationality: Being Rational While Also Being Human
By David Thorstad at OUP: In the past few decades, a new wave of scholars have urged that the 1970s and 1980s were too harsh in their judgment of humanity.
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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 class with a morning circle.Nineteen 7- and 8-year-olds siton a colorful rug. Talk abouttheir favorite
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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 case, a visual artist — gave me was to show me what she called her
We Smashed Up the World: On Noam Chomsky
by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us almost a month ago, but he always told us not to trust the media! It
Strategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux and flow, trade and transfer. The species’ newest ideas, goods and indeed citizens shuttle ceaselessly
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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 simply a demand for more jobs. The quota movement, justified as it is, is simply
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Omar Khayyam’s Aramgah (Resting Place)
Habib Khan, Quetta: Some say that the Scientist and the Poet Omar Khayyam were two different people with the same name, living in the same period, while others argue that
Sunday Poem: We Have Said So Many Goodbyes
by Annika Ziff Glueck (age 12): for my grandmother lost to Alzheimer’s Today we remember you.And will always remember you,Even though we said many goodbyesThese past years. Goodbye to the