Hell is Necessary
by Shadi Hamid at Wisdom of Crowds: I’m thinking about hell (again). What can I say? I find it a particularly compelling topic. No one talks about hell anymore, or
Tuesday Poem: Confiding With a Hen
I tell her the rye truth.We sit in the morning,dew the soil staining.She cocks her head, I can tell she is listening.Her small eyes fill with tilled earth. When I leave,she pecks the ground,searching.
Mayor Eric Adams Looks to Rome to Solve NYC’s Migrant Problem
By Justin Klawans at The Week: It is no secret that New York City has been dealing with a critical influx of migrants, and Mayor Eric Adams is now looking
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CIA Buys Your Data
Matthew Petti at the Reason: For years, the U.S. government has bought information on private citizens from commercial data brokers. Now, for the first time ever, American spymasters are admitting
A United States of Europe
Fernanda Gallo at Aeon: By 1941, as most European states were under the yoke of authoritarian or fascist regimes, and Nazi troops had just occupied France and were moving towards
Learning a Language Involves the Body, Not Just the Brain
Michael Erard in the European Review of Books: Language as self, language learning as magic, the mortifications of the flesh: these themes run through The Centre, a debut novel by British-Pakistani
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The Rise of Mesoeconomics
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: Whether mobilizing for war or (re)constructing advanced manufacturing capabilities in peacetime, success turns on the functioning of complex supply chains. But this truth was
What Films and Literature Reveal About the Voice in Your Head
Shayla Love at Psyche: In a scene from the movie Adaptation (2002),Nicolas Cage, playing the writer Charlie Kaufman, sits in front of his typewriter paralysed with writer’s block. Cage’s mouth
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AI May Hold a Key to the Preservation of the Amazon Rainforest
Elliott Smith at MS LatAm: As the data and results from Guacamaya and PrevisIA continue to grow and be refined, the goal is for other countries to replicate these projects
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Monday Poem: Close Call
I’m still not sure I really saw the car—shiny redon a day that was a long green nap—go airborne. I saw the utility pole it had hit tremble—testingitself against electric
Tribalism
by Habib Khan, Quetta: Last week, fans of the Tottenham Hotspur football Club in England supported their opponents, the Manchester City, and wanted City to win. This was because, in
Great Green Wall
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese imports is an escalation in the yearslong tariff war on China. The new tariffs specifically