Wednesday Poem: Night, the Poem
If you find your true voice, bring it tothe land of the dead. There is…
Why I am a Jew
by David Winner at 3 Quarks Daily: Throughout most of my life, I periodically napped…
Susannah’s Grandad Ran Bengal When Famine Killed Millions
Kavita Puri at the BBC: “I feel enormous shame about what happened,” Susannah Herbert tells…
A Conversation With My ‘They’
Dan Piraro at Bizarro: I successfully raised two children to adulthood who, until recently, I…
Is Social Media the New Tobacco?
Andrew Ross Sorkin in The New York Times Newsletter: The U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy,…
Tuesday Poem: Light Can You Hear
Light can you die?We do when our wings touch you.Our ancestors, forefathers diedFathers also die…
Zeteo: The U.S. President is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get a Deal With Saudi Arabia
by Spencer Ackerman at Zeteo: There are unforced errors. There are mistakes we can see…
Why Couples Should Share Their Finances – to a Point
Bryan Keogh at The Conversation: My fiancée and I recently opened our first joint checking…
Market Ideologies
Author Oscar Sanchez-Sibony shares his views with the Phenomenal World: The Soviet Union’s construction of…
Monday Poem: How to Be a Poet
By: Wendell Berry (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down.Sit down. Be…
Gut Bacteria Slip into the Eye
Rachael Gorman in The Scientist: The retina is layered with photoreceptors, a variety of other neurons,…
Death of a Tradition
Habib Khan, Quetta: The renowned Balochi writer Munir Badini, in his book titled “Shal ae…