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By Jess Bidgood at The NY Times: The pro-Palestinian student encampments protesting the war in Gaza swept across the country this week, and with them, dramatic imagery of arrests and
Continue readingThree Questions About Politics and the Campus Protests
She clawed through the rubble of her worldhead covered a scrupulous maid searching for gemsa necklace mislaid by her mistress on the marble floorof a ballroom set against the battered
News, Views of Interest That You Might Have Missed… ‘UFO’ over NYC baffles passenger flying out of LaGuardia Airport…‘The announcement we’ve found alien life could be couple years away’… Pro-Palestinian
Talk of Indian Prime Minister Modi’s successful economic stewardship is key to his appeal and legitimacy. Yet the record is far from clear cut Debasish Roy Chowdhury at Time: The
By Adeel Hassan at The New York Times: Property is generally worth less if it’s owned by a Black American. That sobering fact, cemented by 150 years of assessment data,
Continue readingThe Damage the ‘Black Tax’ Inflicted on Generations of African Americans
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: You know how we fix the chaos at Columbia University? We listen to a Catholic priest! I’m kidding, obviously. But also not really kidding?
Continue readingA Palestinian, a Jew, and a Priest Walk Onto a Campus
Throughout history, the most effective one’s have powered to victory on commitment to core values and collective resolve Scott Atran in Aeon: Leonidas, King of Sparta, arrived at Thermopylae with
Irshad Salim: 20+ years ago in the early 2000s, my neighbor Narku from Ghana who was very articulate and well read, and belonged to a Political family, shared thoughts and
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Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: On this episode, Razib talks about the April 2024 preprint The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. The blockbuster publication introduces nearly 300 new ancient DNA
When I returned to earth after forty thousand yearsthere were no more graves, no more cathedrals.No public parks, no public. I looked everywhereand couldn’t find a single statue of a
Slinky Legend has it that the toy emerged in the 1940s when an American naval engineer accidentally dropped a twisted spring on the floor. He found the effect curious and
Benjamin A. Schupmann at the Oxford University Press Blog: That a popular candidate could be disqualified from running and removed from the ballot might, at first glance, seem at odds
Continue readingIs it Democratic to Disqualify a Popular Candidate From the Ballot?