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That’s the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s “Countdown”–Barry Gewen, a longtime editor at the NY Times Book Review who retired in 2022,
Continue readingLet’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
by Charles Bukowski at Poetic Outlaws You know: I’m drunk once againherelistening to Tchaikovskyon the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 yearsagowhen I was a starving writerand here he isagainand
‘Swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.’ Miri Davidson in Sidecar: The far right wants to decolonize. In France, far-right intellectuals routinely cast Europe as indigenous victim of an ‘immigrant colonization’
Rashid Khalidi in The Guardian: For people everywhere, myself included, the awful images that have come out of Gaza and Israel since 7 October 2023 have been inescapable. This war hangs over us
Continue readingGaza and the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Rick Cleveland at Mississippi Today: No telling how many times this sports writer has made the drive back from Oxford to Jackson following some sports event. Hundreds of times for
Continue readingIt was Like ‘The Twilight Zone,’ But With O.J., it Was All Too Real
From cave art to contemporary art, humans have created the most outstanding works of art and reflected on every aspect of human life and its relationship with creativity. And throughout the
by Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: In my youth days, I happened to be in Central Ukraine during the Soviet era, and was fascinated by the immensity of their sports
Once, in the cool blue middle of a lake,up to my neck in that most precious element of all, I found the pale gray curled-upwards pigeon featherfloating on the tension
Nathan Cheek at Psyche: Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse from their partners. One woman is relatively affluent, while the other struggles to make ends
Sunstein and Thaler in The New Yorker: In 1968, Tversky and Kahneman were both rising stars in the psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They had little else in
Continue readingThe Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
By Jack Sullivan at Air Mail: Like all speakers of truth, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson has, at times, faced ridicule. Mostly the derision has been hurled by his enemies, but
Continue readingThe Fire-Breather Tucker Carlson and His Alma Mater St. George’s
Quote of the Day John Alfred Tinniswood, age 111, was recently confirmed as the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records and said the secret to longevity was ultimately “pure
Continue reading‘You Either Live Long or You Live Short, and You Can’t Do Much About it.’