Ever felt that being aware, thoughtful, and reflective sometimes makes life more complicated rather than easier? Even a sleepless night can make you question yourself on knowing so many things in life...
03.26.2026 Indiatimes.com
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In this worn, domesticated world of ours, there are few truly pristine wildernesses, remote regions where no m...
03.29.2026 Theatlantic.com and 4 sites
Adrian Wooldridge’s “ The Revolutionary Center : The Lost Genius of Liberalism” will be published on April 21. This op-ed was adapted from an article in UnHerd . The signs of liberalism’s senescence a...
03.24.2026 Dnyuz.com and 1 sites
What do modern-day behemoths like Google have in common with the East India Company? For Joshua Ehrlich, the answer lies in how such companies have justified themselves as promoters of knowledge. When...
03.26.2026 Scroll.in
Fifty years of wear to its spine means the little book now automatically falls open at page 206. It’s as a good page as any for a book of quotations that has been my good companion over fifty years, sixteen house moves, three countries, three children and millions of words churned out in essays, articles, speeches, press releases advertising copy and help with school homework. It has been “My loved, my honoured, much respected friend” as student, advertising and PR man, dad and journalist. It ha...
03.25.2026 Scotsman.com
I have Facebook to thank for spotting this one. A well-known Alberta political commentator published a column this week calling for a national strategy to combat misinformation and disinformation surr...
03.25.2026 Todayville.com
March 27 2026 HOW THE GLOBAL CRISIS WILL UNFOLD Michael Hudson & Steve Keen David Graeber Institute NIKA Hello, everyone. We are very happy to invite back Michael Hudson and Professor Steve Keen to th...
03.29.2026 Michael-hudson.com
i I am pro-choice. Always have been. So why do I feel so uncomfortable about last week’s vote in the House of Lords to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales? For me, that vote, and even more str...
03.24.2026 Spiked-online.com
posted Mar 24 @ 01: 56 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link A new edition of On Liberty, a canonical work of political philosophy, “is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongsi...
03.24.2026 Kottke.org
You only realise how depressing it has become to live in Keir Starmer’s Britain when you land in Cape Town towards the end of an interminable northern winter. Your mood immediately lifts – and it’s not only because of the warm ocean air or the diamon...
03.29.2026 Spectator.com.au