Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator
From The American Prospect (TAP): In March, President Biden established a Strike Force on Unfair…
The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeover
Lois Parshley at The Lever: In early May, Google announced it would be adding artificial…
The Scientific Origins of Racism
by Jacob Zellmer at Aeon: Imagine for a moment that tomorrow we find humans on…
Kings, Laws, and God
From Wisdom of Crowds: On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case…
Quotable Quote: ‘Wickedness’ and ‘Stupidity’
Shared by Ishaq Saqi, ISB: “Both wickedness and stupidity walk the street more confidently when…
Is Harvard Antisemitic?
Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: WHEN HAMAS TERRORISTS attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and…
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200
Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent…
Monday Poem: Ghazal For Grandmother
My grandmother kept a suitcase, hard & roundedlike a deep pink shell. I used to…
Breaking Free from the Cultural Neurosis
By Dr. Alexander Lowen at Poetic Outlaws: We want to be more alive and feel…
The Kennedys And The Women They Destroyed
Louis Bayard at The NY Times: In the opening sentence of her rage-swollen “Ask Not,”…
Majority Without a Mandate
Richard Seymour in Sidecar: Was ever a country, in this humour, won? A majority without…
Murder in Hollywood
In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who alleged that Cary Grant fathered her…