In every real democracy, including places as far afield as Anglosphere, Continental Europe, Islamic countries in their temporarily democratic periods, India and even East Asian democracies, the more socially conservative side has always been more pro-market.

If you showed these estimates to like a mid-19th century Anthropologist they would probably think "the libs were right !"

people on this website have a noble savage view of the “liberal arts major”. they’re like if you had talked to a history major once none of the bad things ever would have happened. buddy the liberal arts majors are everywhere and quite good at getting their way

No one has been glazing india as much as Iranian embassy in india.

🇮🇷BREAKING: Iran's Water Resource Management Company says the twelve most important dams for drinking water and agriculture have less than 10% of their water storage. Three dams have dropped to 0%. Kaveh Madani, an Iranian expert on water management, referred to the damage as

I’m glad I got politics autism and not the “argues about cartoons meant for toddlers on twitter for hours” autism

In 1693, Edmond Halley (of comet fame) analyzed early life tables and calculated a (median) life expectancy. As he shows, a 30-year-old man may be expected to live to 57-58. So even those who survived to adulthood lived much shorter lives.

Mumbai gets India’s 1st private maths research institute, Indian Fields Medalist on advisory board Akanksha Mishra Akanksha Mishra reports #ThePrintEducation theprint.in/india/educatio…

Thank you NYT, very cool

The Green Revolution remains extremely undertalked in its significance. Before it, people were aping with all sorts of apocalyptic extremism. You had the Nazis and their "millions must die" plan. You had Paul Ehrlich and his "billions must die" plan. You had commies and their

Had he deleted his account in 2020, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he deleted in 2022, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he deleted in 2025. Alas, what can one say?

The company that built the Gateway of India is still there.

In The Gramsci Reader, there is a long chapter on "Americanism", that is on modernity, management of companies, technical change & life in what was then the futuristic capitalism of the USA. Among other topics, Gramsci discusses also family, sex and gender roles under

Every accusation a confession. Nobody reads anymore and the only people on the left still reading are people like John Ganz and Quinn Slobodian who appear unable to synthesize all the things they do read into anything new. Forcefully pushing all info into prexisting schemata

Hasan is doing what progressives have done for decades: he is redefining "racist right winger" to mean "someone who disputes that America deserved 9/11,'" just as others defined that term to mean "someone who believes all lives matter," and "someone who believes men can't be

Indigenous ways of cooling

Some people might agree with you that Hasan's redefinition is moronic (just as some people agreed that it was wrong to enact the other redefinitions I listed,) but if Hasan has larger reach and more influence than you, his definition is likely to prevail, as did those other

EU’S VON DER LEYEN: UKRAINE MUST BE A ‘STEEL PORCUPINE’ VS RUSSIA — PLEDGES UNLIMITED MILITARY BACKING, DRONE-INDUSTRIAL PUSH, JUST-PEACE SUPPORT, MEMBERSHIP PATH, AND 19TH SANCTIONS PACKAGE BY SEPTEMBER.

Fukuyama on Chinese state formation (contra Marx, Wittfogel, and even some "western exceptionalist"/"Eurocentric" lit)

The refrigeration cycle is so efficient that doing this sort of thing to avoid it feels like an insult against thermodynamics itself.