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Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

May 2, 2023 • by Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar

Lockdowns reflect the arbitrariness of the state, an absence of sociological literacy about urban-rural differences, a sense of management as control without the nuances of social science that the diversity of India desperately needs....

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What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

A premier journal that pioneered a literary form has gone dark, and readers want to know why

March 1, 2023 • by Vicky Oliver

Was the decades-old, and recently suspended, Creative Nonfiction doomed? Is it even dead? ...

What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

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You Have Some Unfinished Business!

From architectural ruins to grocery lists to high-end fashion, is there something attractive about being incomplete?

February 28, 2023 • by Palak Godara

The possibility that my endless to-do lists are a form of ambition and memory-banking fills me with a happy sense of resolution....

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Paradoxes of Free Speech

How the amplification of limitless speech acts can silence others

February 21, 2023 • by Peter Nohrnberg

Our culture’s fetishizing of self-expression, apparently without any limits, is paradoxically undermining free speech....

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Why Does a Powerful Nation Form an Alliance with a Minor Power?

The India-Armenia arms deal opens a window on the value of asymmetrical alliances

February 14, 2023 • by Georgi Asatryan

India-Armenia relations have been actively developing in recent years. In a series of consultations and meetings, India and Armenia have signed defense deals, a significant development in the global arms trade. For India, a great power, this was the first export deal of its weapons, while Armenia, a minor power, ...

Why Does a Powerful Nation Form an Alliance with a Minor Power?

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Behind Milan’s Millennial Renaissance

The hidden costs of becoming an Instagrammable global city

October 27, 2022 • by Giorgio Fontana

I love Milan. I was born in its suburbs and have been living here for fifteen years; it’s still a very special place, a unique city in Italy. But its ruling class (and its residents) must tackle the problem of architectural and social inequality seriously before this place swallows itself....

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Grief Creates an Opportunity for Love

When we mourn, we can emulate the acts of grace that have enriched our lives

July 6, 2022 • by Harold Pollack

Love and grief are not zero-sum games, but they sometimes feel that way in complicated, blended, or fractured families....

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Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

The challenge of hosting the divine

May 20, 2022 • by Wendy Doniger

Greek epic and tragedy abound in cautionary tales about people who violated the basic rules of hospitality to guests and strangers and then paid the price, even when the visitors were not gods but merely human strangers. ...

Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

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Habermas on the Legitimacy of Lockdown

Habermas argued that the state’s duty to protect life outweighed all individual rights. His critics accused him of authoritarianism.

February 23, 2022 • by Peter J. Verovšek

Jürgen Habermas recently argued that the pandemic measures of the German government hadn’t gone far enough. To weigh the state’s duty to protect life against other rights and freedoms was unconstitutional, he warned. In the ensuing controversy, critics accused him of authoritarianism. ...

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For Want of Wild Beasts

For many in Eastern Europe, prison was the hallmark of Communism. Today, the United States is experiencing its own carceral society. What can be learnt from this comparison and can we redefine the term “political prisoner”?

February 1, 2022 • by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Irena Grudzińska-Gross and Marci Shore

How do we understand both the uses and disadvantages of thinking across time and space? How do we negotiate the fact that in any biography or historical event, there are both elements that are unique, and elements that are universal? For me, these questions belonged to a larger question: namely, ...

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A Permanent Scar

COVID-19’s impact on young people’s futures

January 12, 2022 • by William Hayward

Almost two years after the onset of the pandemic, young people in Europe are reflecting on the impact it has had on their lives and questioning what it will mean for their future prospects. Will the lives of European youth be precarious for years to come?...

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Who Should Tell Pauli Murray’s Story?

Why a white documentarian should have stepped aside and created space for a Black filmmaker

December 1, 2021 • by Benje Williams

My hand is trembling as I stick it into the dark air. I wasn’t planning on asking a question. Definitely not this question. But it needs to be asked, and I don’t see any other Black people in this theater in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. “I’m so glad My ...

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Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

A premier journal that pioneered a literary form has gone dark, and readers want to know why

You Have Some Unfinished Business!

From architectural ruins to grocery lists to high-end fashion, is there something attractive about being incomplete?

Why Does a Powerful Nation Form an Alliance with a Minor Power?

The India-Armenia arms deal opens a window on the value of asymmetrical alliances

Behind Milan’s Millennial Renaissance

The hidden costs of becoming an Instagrammable global city

Grief Creates an Opportunity for Love

When we mourn, we can emulate the acts of grace that have enriched our lives

Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

The challenge of hosting the divine

Habermas on the Legitimacy of Lockdown

Habermas argued that the state’s duty to protect life outweighed all individual rights. His critics accused him of authoritarianism.

For Want of Wild Beasts

For many in Eastern Europe, prison was the hallmark of Communism. Today, the United States is experiencing its own carceral society. What can be learnt from this comparison and can we redefine the term “political prisoner”?

A Permanent Scar

COVID-19’s impact on young people’s futures

Who Should Tell Pauli Murray’s Story?

Why a white documentarian should have stepped aside and created space for a Black filmmaker

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