In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
A swift strike. A toppled strongman. A decisive and visible victory. In Venezuela, the lesson seemed simple: power works when it is unmistakable — when it acts quickly and leaves no ambiguity
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Sri Lanka’s education system evolved significantly under early reforms such as the Kannangara Educational Reforms of the mid-20th century, which expanded free education and broadened the curriculum but largely retained teacher-centered instruction
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On February 26, 2026, Pakistani jets struck targets in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces. Kabul retaliated. Islamabad declared open war. The international community scrambled for its talking points. But for anyone
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We live in an upside-down world. The leaders of the richer nations, the old colonial powers, want to rehabilitate the language of imperialism: praise for their past, and a desire to repeat
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In January 2026, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a grim update to its earlier work, titled Living Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps. This report documents the horrific
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With Sri Lanka’s 17th annual war victory over separatist Tamil terrorism just months away, warwinning Army Chief, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka (Dec. 06, 2005, to July 15, 2009) has significantly changed his
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson decided in 1965 to significantly increase the number of American troops to fight the growing war in Vietnam, he felt obligated to justify this major escalation to the
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump was, in Chief Justice John Roberts’ telling, a straightforward example of statutory interpretation. Roberts framed the case as an interpretation of the 1977
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Soon after the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, Sam Altman of the OpenAI sat down with a journalist from the Indian Express for a conversation that spanned the past, present, and future
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What do we mean, in a social and political sense, by “we”? Generally, we’re referring to our shared identity as a community: the collective understanding that enables us to discuss, deliberate, and
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“It is time to democratize AI,” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said while addressing the AI Impact Summit in India. He began his remarks by expressing his enthusiasm for being in the
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In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security—a designation that allows the United States government to use sweeping economic restrictions traditionally
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While a great deal of experts have focused on drone warfare as the new reality in warfare, the AI Revolution is a much bigger deal. AI today enables drones to be far
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During a talk in Bozeman, Montana, last week, I was asked to give examples of when Hannah Arendt was wrong. The question is disarmingly simple. She was hardly infallible. She made mistakes.
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“Religions had learned long ago that a human mind facing the terrifying prospect of eternal nothingness would believe almost anything. Timor mortis est pater religionis, Langdon mused, recalling the ancient saying made
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