King Charles I of England was cited in today's verdict of Yoon Suk Yeol. The judge invoked the 1649 execution of the English monarch to establish the legal principle that heads of state can commit insurrection by attacking the legislature even when claiming to protect democracy.

Kicking off Ramadan with the Sidi Sufis of Gujarat... Amazing performance by Sidi Sabbir Husain Kamar Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

Vindicated.

this literally happened on silicon valley

Capitalism in one hemisphere

Woke up this morning remembering the greatest headline ever written.

As I stood in my lonely bedroom at the hotel, trying to tie my white tie myself, it struck me for the first time that there must be whole squads of chappies in the world who had to get along without a man to look after them. I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural

En la Ciudad de México ya estamos Jacarandosos

Further Evidence of a Misreading of the Iranian System Recent statements coming out of Washington reinforce a troubling possibility: that key elements within the administration fundamentally misunderstand how the Iranian system operates. It is true that ideology is central to

Trump calling up each hojjat al-Islam on the Assembly of Experts and urging them to demand proof of Mujtaba's ijtihad.

Netflix has proven to me again that I am always interested in dinosaurs.

Reading about how Hegel couldn't work out what role the Slavs played in world history and was puzzled as to why they existed

Love that the todays equivalent of holding up a newspaper as proof of life is an iPad with today’s BBC News homepage.

All the other stuff aside, I don't believe revocation of sanctions is possible conceptually. Syria had the cleanest break imaginable and it's still a multi-year process at best. It'd be easier to fit Bibi into the Joint List than convince banks to clear Iranian transactions

In 2008 I was so naive I wandered around the old city speculating these could be some of the last years before the inevitable EasyJet and Marrakechification of this jewel of the orient. I do think it’s important to recall sometimes today’s world is wildly darker than expected.

‘Mind your head’? Seriously? Too soon.

Countries where a person from Japan leads a nationalist political party

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

Joe Weisenthal In this fun story; the children of polyglot economists grow up thinking they have to each invent their own language today.duke.edu/2004/01/econom…