Tuesday Poem: The Ultimate Return
In the early dark before dawnI awake with a dreary feelingof death dripping from my…
Google and Harvard Map a Tiny Piece of the Human Brain With Extreme Precision
Our brains are like a jungle, writes Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Fan reports that…
Teaching the Science of Happiness
“In order to help improve my students’ mental health, I offered a course on the…
Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning
Peter Beinart in The Beinart Notebook: Our guest this week is someone I admire greatly,…
‘The Use of Political Power to Achieve Economic Gains’
by Umair Javed at Dawn: The Chinese state is remarkable in that it has struck…
A Top U.S. Diplomat on What America Gets Wrong
By Nahal Toosi at Politico: Victoria Nuland has long been known as a relentless, even…
Democracy Has Run Out of Future
Ivan Krastev & Leonard Benardo in Foreign Policy: We live today amid the dregs of…
Monday Poem: Mother’s Day Unsonnet
To think that I was once a germ of lightin the belly of another being,and…
New World Order?
Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay in Phenomenal World: We live in a dysfunctional system in…
Behind the Ivy Intifada
“We can clearly recognize elite institutions’ deep commitment to sterile forms of activism.” Musa al-Gharbi…
She Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: As the historian Nell Irvin Painter has learned over…
Imagineering: Teamwork. Backhoe Kid.
“Interest in the work matters”. “No problem can be solved from the same level of…