Jhumpa Lahiri: The Art of Fiction
Francesco Pacifico in Paris Review: My first conversations with Jhumpa Lahiri took place in Rome this…
Future Pandemics Will Have the Same Human Causes as Ancient Outbreaks
Lessons from anthropology can help prevent them. Ron Barrett in The Conversation: The last pandemic…
Build a Thriving Workforce to Defend Against Disruption
Generative AI has begun to reshape jobs; leaders have an opportunity to reimagine work, the…
Friday Poem: All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs
All my friends are finding new beliefs.This one converts to Catholicism and this one to…
Political Dysfunction Is Harming National Security
Today, when only 28 pct of Americans are satisfied with democracy, why would anyone look…
Fareed Zakaria and Our Tumultuous World
Anita Jain in the Washington Times: In his latest book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash…
The Real Scandal of Campus Protest
Erik Baker in the Boston Review: One of the courses I teach is called “Science,…
Ten Bold Moves to Indonesia Becoming a Global Beacon for Decarbonization
Indonesia is the eighth-largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, its role in…
Thursday Poem: Avenue of Plane Trees
Things are growing strange these days,like Van Gogh’s yellow trees. Oh, do notbe surprised by…
Did the Occult Influence Karl Marx and Early Communism?
Is spiritualism and materialism paradoxical? Can they coexist? Is the inference that occult is akin…
Cities and Homes Weren’t Built For This Climate
Rather than using concrete to channel away rainwater, it is best to work with nature to…
My Word of the Year: Hostages
By Anatoly Liberman at OUP: The Hebrew word “hostages” can be translated into English as…