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Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left who captivated him as a young man — such as Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and
Continue readingHow George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
by Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: For a strange five minutes in 1994, Americans were talking about caning. An American teenager named Michael Fay drew Singapore into the international
Come walk with me through the bones of this bustling city.Time hedges its bets in the spit-spatter of this hustling city. On the streets, fragrance is rampant. Catharsis of us,
Continue readingThursday Poem: ‘Metropolis With Ghazal’ by Siddharth Dasgupta
“Cooperation” is the most unexpected phenomena in nature, the mechanics of the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ game theory reveals. More in this video:
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Most economic debates are about income, not wealth. When we talk about income taxes, or welfare benefits, or labor’s share of national income, we’re talking about the
Continue readingA Little-understood Fact: There’s Not That Much Wealth in the World
by Jo Rodgers at New York Times: Walk down a side street in London’s diamond district and you might catch the scent of frankincense and agar wood as it drifts
Continue readingA London Jeweler Turns to Home Goods Made With Precious Metals
by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Researchers have found that a unique species of marine bacteria is just as effective at fertilizing agricultural soils as mineral fertilizers that are over-applied to
Continue readingFor Sustainable Food Production on Land, We Might Soon be Looking to the Sea
by Rashid Husain Syed at Globe and Mail: Pakistan, the nuclear-armed country that is the fifth most populous in the world, is on the cusp of a revolution – at
Meghan Daum in Substack: Alice Munro, considered one of the greatest short-story writers of modern times, was a monster. The world learned this on Sunday, within moments of the Toronto Star hitting “publish”
Continue readingWas Alice Munro an Art Monster? Or Just a Monster?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to the experts, live in autocracies. Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc wants us to see the resemblances
Vijaya Ramachandran, Juzel Lloyd, and Seaver Wang at the Breakthrough Journal: Amongst the many energy-hungry technologies supporting modern society, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a major driver of energy
It’s the Little Thingsthe sparrow’s tender headthe dead possum on the roadthe pungent smell of the fresh creekin the summer when heat risesto the bridge that spans its widthand if