9+ hour ago  (867+ words) I heartily recommend Steve Allen’s book Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking for its extensive collection of examples and for its 103 rules for fighting your own and other people’s dumbth. The book cover promises 101 ways to reason better, but there…...

33+ min ago  (564+ words) The return of the artwork should be greeted in a spirit of pure enjoyment Jane Shilling is a columnist and critic who has written on books, the arts, food and gardening for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Times, Daily…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago  (344+ words) Inbox.lv Pushkin is more known in Latvia than Krišjānis Barons, and Dostoevsky is more famous than Ojārs Vācietis – survey A survey was commissioned to find out what residents of Latvia know about various cultural figures, noted Vita Zelče on…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago  (1214+ words) Governor of the Cordillera by Shelton Woods explores the life of John Early, an American colonial official whose legacy in the Cordillera has largely faded from public memory. Mia Magdalena Fokno 2026 Written by Mia Magdalena Fokno Some historians lecture. Shelton…...

13+ hour, 41+ min ago  (684+ words) By Jaycee Gudoy | Published 13 seconds ago There’s something quietly unsettling about a government looking at a book written centuries ago and deciding it still poses a threat. Not a new manifesto, not a contemporary provocation — but something composed by a…...

56+ min ago  (73+ words) Adam Tooze | Substack Top Links 1160 Who gets power in contemporary America? Empire on suicide watch. Saba Saba day & singing the Vietnam blues. Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze Fu Baoshi 3 / 17Autumn Landscape From The Four Seasons…...

5+ hour, 5+ min ago  (413+ words) July 12, 2026 Alwin Marshall-Squire Editorial, Leisure & Lifestyle 0 As Next Chapter continues its weekly spotlight on books worth discovering, this week’s feature examines how some of the most famous courtroom battles in American history continue to influence conversations about justice, public opinion,…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (785+ words) I’m 42; Samuel Moyn is 54. When we talked about his new book, Gerontocracy in America, it felt less like an interview than a conversation between two people who’ve learned to live with the price of telling older, richer people something they…...

12+ hour, 9+ min ago  (693+ words) On Sunday, Kerala hosts a range of events, including a Cognito Abacus championship prize distribution and an anti-drug drawing campaign, as well as a.Kerala events July 2026, Thiruvananthapuram book launch, Kollam anti-drug campaign, Kozhikode digital wellness youth, V D Satheesan inauguration,…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (161+ words) WKNO FM In 'Talk to Me,' the grandson of a former Haitian president uncovers family secrets | Book of the Day In 1957, a labor leader named Daniel Fignolé was the president of Haiti for 19 days. Just two weeks after his inauguration,…...