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A new year brings new hopes and fears. I must confess that since childhood, on every New Year's Eve, my pulse would quicken at midnight, and my...
This is the time for the yearender. 2024 should be remembered as the year when the future invaded our lives and when we were too busy to care or...
Nobel laureate and celebrated economist Paul Krugman recently wrote his last column for The New York Times, concluding his 25 years of association...
America's counterculture seems to have run amok. And it manifests a unique case of cognitive dissonance. Arguably, you could say that this is what...
Crimes are usually not meant to be too farsighted. Yet some crimes, especially assassinations, serve as a warning for the coming times. The...
Science fiction writers and Hollywood both know the art of reminding what could go wrong. But only pseudoscientists or at times alarmist scientists...
While we were learning about the Shariah compliance of virtual private networks (VPNs) and how a single typo can lead to a full-blown religious...
The surrealism of the enforced populism seems to be hitting people just now. But we have known it to be a clear and present danger for a decade....
Cruelty is a complex emotion. It does not seem to come naturally to humans. A basic instinct may combine with another to momentarily produce it....
Last week, historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder spoke to CBC's Matt Galloway in Vancouver. The conversation available online is mostly...
The Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 movie adaptation of the Stephen King novel, The Shining, has a maze. The purpose of this maze for the...
Karl Popper's readers know how critical he was of the idea of historicism. This scribe belongs to the same community. Any attempt to ascribe...
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," said John F Kennedy in his 1961 presidential inauguration...
Who are we without our identities, sense of self and social constructs? A brilliant TV series, Severance, offers an enthralling thought experiment....
The media management team of the democratic ticket in the US elections cannot seem to catch a break. When President Biden was running for...
A regular casino goer readily attests to its overwhelming advantage over its customers. It is not easy to keep winning in a game. It is called the...
Two features define our age. Acceleration. And complexity. Let's tackle acceleration first. Fifty-three years ago, Alvin Toffler wrote this in his...
We live in the age of great economic and political churning and tumult. A spectre seems to haunt South Asia - the spectre of instability. Our story...
For a long time in my writing and journalism career, young people routinely contacted me, asking me for help getting published or finding exposure...
Are magic and espionage kindred arts? Former Deputy Director of the CIA John McLaughlin thinks as much. But do not take his word for it. Look at...
Policymakers around the world gravitate towards making one-size-fits-all policies. Through effective altruism, this approach has also found its way...
Bangladesh's simmering crisis and the ongoing transition have thrown many pundits off balance. This was to be expected. How often do you see such a...
Murphy’s law is an epigram or adage which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. In an extended form, it posits that things will go...
Could you believe it? For nearly 36 hours last week, I was a Trump supporter. Then, I was not. It isn’t that difficult a story to understand or to...
Are you tired of reading an endless supply of articles bemoaning the alleged dystopian reality we live in? Let us do something different this week....