Crop Circles: Who’s Hoaxing Whom?
“They may not be evidence of UFOs, ancient spirits or secret weapons, but there is…
Kat Rosenfield: Glamorizing a Marital Split is Narcissism Disguised as Feminism
Kat Rosenfield at The Free Press: Five years ago, all my girlfriends suddenly decided to…
Sunday Poem: Old Self
I chanced across my old selftoday. I was sitting in the secondfloor office where I…
Brazil: A Melting-pot Genetic Present and an Uncharted Deep Past
by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty…
The Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future
Raghuram G. Rajan at Project Syndicate: There is a buzz in India today – a…
Why was a Laughing Woman Seen as Lethal, Not Least to Herself?
Maggie Hennefeld at Psyche: As I argue in my new book, Death by Laughter: Female…
The Incredible Story of the Fake Allied Military Unit that Fooled Hitler Ahead of the D-day Invasion of Normandy
By Taylor Downing at Air Mail: General Hans Cramer was a German officer of the…
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s…
Saturday Poem: What Kind of Times Are These
There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphilland the old…
Presidential Debates Have Outlived Their Usefulness
John McWhorter writes in Persuasion: Donald Trump is incapable of meaningful participation in such an…
Points to Ponder
Talking Points from an editorial in Dawn: –Pakistan is in a debt trap.–It must borrow…