From ASALH: 2026 marks a century of national commemorations of Black history. Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, George Cleveland Hall, William B. Hartgrove, Jesse E. Moorland, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps institutionalized the teaching, study, dissemination, and commemorati … | Continue reading
How Do I Love You? How do I love you? Oh, this way and that way. Oh, happily. Perhaps I may elaborate by demonstration? Like this, and like this and …………………. no more words now by Mary Oliver from Felicity -Poems Penguin Press, NY, 2016 Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us g … | Continue reading
by Peter Topolewski Most of us haven’t smoked or snorted crystal meth. Not in meaningful quantities. Same goes for heroin and fentanyl. But by now, no matter where we live, most of us have stepped over or around someone who has. Someone who is, if not dead, smoking or snorting or … | Continue reading
by Bill Murray An era of worldwide illiberal governance approaches. If the Trump administration has its way, future illiberal leaders will face fewer opponents. Aspiring autocrats will lose the constraint of the United States as a potential opponent. Autocracy will spread. We spe … | Continue reading
Alia Farid. From the series “Elsewhere”. Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery; Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest. ” … Whether working with Samawa weavers in Iraq, fountain fabricators in Kuwait, or young residents of the Chibayish m … | Continue reading
Yagnishsing Dawoor in The Guardian: Mohammed Hanif’s novels address the more troubling aspects of Pakistani history and politics with unhinged, near-treasonous irreverence. His 2008 Booker-longlisted debut, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was a scabrously comic portrait of General Z … | Continue reading
Adam Kroetsch at Policy and Practice: We need clinical trial abundance. When trials are slow and costly, it doesn’t just hurt the pharmaceutical industry that pays for the trials – it limits how many treatments reach patients and how quickly they arrive. Less expensive, more abun … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Alex Smith at the Asian Review of Books: At the core of Wang’s argument is the assertion that for all their similarities, the two countries often function as “inversions” of one another. Labels of capitalist, neoliberal, communist and socialist have limited utility when it comes … | Continue reading
Simon Critchley at The Guardian: Beginning with the Anglicanism of St Mary’s Church in Bromley, where Bowie sang in the choir, continuing with his immersion in Tibetan Buddhism in the late 1960s and on to the occultism of Aleister Crowley, Ormerod unpacks the religious preoccupat … | Continue reading
Tyler Dean at Artforum: Coppola’s adaptation cleaves relatively closely to the plot of Stoker’s novel, but Besson’s script replicates, almost exactly, only the parts of Coppola’s film that deviate from Stoker’s story. In both films, Dracula is explicitly the undead Vlad Ţepeș (th … | Continue reading
Saima Sidik in Harvard Magazine: An axolotl is a salamander with a superpower: it can regrow its limbs. When a predator chomps off its leg or it loses an appendage in an accident, a new one will quickly take its place. Many scientists would like to know how the axolotl does this … | Continue reading
Andrew Chow in Time Magazine: When Bad Bunny emerged from a row of towering sugar cane stalks to kick off his Super Bowl halftime show performance, it might have been easy to read the set design as little more than a lush backdrop: a tableau of Caribbean paradise imported to the … | Continue reading
by Mark Harvey The biggest hazard on my one trip to Minneapolis was being invited to too many family picnics and possibly dying from an overdose of mayonnaise. You have to go to Minnesota to really experience what’s known in the vernacular as Minnesota Nice. The term springs from … | Continue reading
by Carol A Westbrook A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a downtown doctor’s office, interviewing a potential concierge physician to see if we were compatible. I had decided it was time to make some changes in my health care, and for good reason. I’m in my 70’s, I’m handicapped, an … | Continue reading
“We have from the beginning of the Holocene, you know, the raising, the creation of cities in the Tigris/Euphrates, we have created a world in which we marginalize that which we don’t think serves us as well as it could. We’ve turned nature into a thing.” ……………………………………—Barry Lop … | Continue reading
Henry Farrell in Programmable Mutter: I did the Ezra Klein show last Friday, and it went up on the NYT website this morning. A whole lot has happened in the meantime. The way I think is through talking with other people, and a lot of thinking happened in the conversation. It wove … | Continue reading
In The Ideas Letter, Aaron Benanav, Leif Weatherby, and Evgeny Morozov debate AI, capitalism and socialism: Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of hi … | Continue reading
Steffen Murau in Phenomenal World: One year into Donald Trump’s second term, the global economic order is being given a facelift that wouldn’t look out of place at his Mar-a-Lago beach club. The President has turned his famous penchant for tariffs—“the most beautiful word in the … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
From VOI: JAKARTA – Amid the excitement of the World Governments Summit (WGS) 2026 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), a forum usually filled with majestic speeches, technological futurism and discussions of world leaders, there was a guest whose presence was the most silent, b … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
my dream about being white —re: Black History Month in the U.S. hey music and me only white, hair a flutter of fall leaves circling my perfect line of a nose, no lips, no behind, hey white me and I’m wearing white history but there’s no future in those clothes so i take them off… | Continue reading
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad This is the last part of our discussion on the culture of limits (Part I, Part II, and Part III). In Hindu thought limits that define finitude and infinity were never opposed in a simple or antagonistic way. Instead, they were understood as mutually im … | Continue reading
by Eric Schenck I’ve gotten high with my dad about 10 times. It’s certainly a unique life position to be in. There’s a specific routine we follow: I visit my parents for a few days. We catch up the first 24 hours and talk about everything you’d expect. I ask Dad if he wants to… | Continue reading
by Amir Zadnemat Introduction: Flight from Tranquility In the age of noise, we have become refugees from silence. Imagine a world where every moment of wakefulness is filled with sound. From the jarring morning alarm to the podcast we listen to on the way to work; from the consta … | Continue reading
Paul Bloom at Small Potatoes: We are born with a yearning for the spiritual and transcendent, and the difficult truths about life that we learn about as we grow older—such as the inevitability of death and the existence of terrible injustices—further push us towards faith. Withou … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Jonathan O’Callaghan in New Scientist: We are only a month into 2026, yet it’s already clear what one of the major space stories of the year is going to be: mega-constellations, and the ongoing attempts to launch thousands of satellites into Earth’s orbit. The latest development … | Continue reading
Christin Bohnke at JSTOR Daily: In August 1968, a visiting foreign minister from Pakistan, Mian Arshad Hussain, gave Mao a box of mangoes as a gift during a state visit. Presenting mangoes has a long tradition in Pakistan, but in China, the fruit was virtually unknown. Mao passed … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Hermione Hoby at The New Yorker: David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest,” a book whose notorious bigness comprises both physical size and reputational heft, turns thirty in February. The occasion is a moment to ask how a novel that mourns addiction and venerates humility and patie … | Continue reading
Thomas E. Miles at The Hedgehog Review: Why bother? What’s the point? These are questions that inevitably arise in conversations about college programs in prisons. But these questions make certain assumptions about education in general and higher education in prisons specifically … | Continue reading
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: How do you translate a Roman inscription found on a tombstone? How many pairs of tendons are supported by one bone in hummingbirds? Here is a chemical reaction that requires three steps: What are they? Based on the latest research on Tiberian pronun … | Continue reading
Dream Father I seem to have a dream about my father roughly once a year. Most of the time he acts pretty much like when he was alive, Stands off to one side and maintains a running commentary, Sucking in smoke as he laughs, then exhaling it as he speaks. It is hard for me… | Continue reading
by Barry Goldman Everybody knows the scene in Casablanca when Captain Renault is “shocked, shocked” to find that gambling is going on in Rick’s Café. The phrase has become shorthand for all kinds of official hypocrisy. But I want to go back a few lines. Here is the clip. Major St … | Continue reading
by Laurence Peterson In the long and illustrious history of bullshit, there has perhaps never been another month quite like January, 2026, at least in terms of its political manifestations. The month began with a completely unprovoked attack on Venezuela that resulted in the appr … | Continue reading
by Mike O’Brien For a variety of public and private reasons, this year is already worse than last year, and last year was awful. I’ve pretty much given up my long-standing news addiction, which in previous years had me reading vast swathes of reporting and analysis for hours a da … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Hannah Ritchie at By the Numbers: Which country has the highest rates of diabetes? Many people would guess the United States. Perhaps Canada or Australia? Mexico? The United Kingdom? According to the International Diabetes Federation, it’s Pakistan. Take a look at the map below, … | Continue reading
Stephen Westich at The Hedgehog Review: Investigating the crypto-religious is Elie’s venture in this book. Readers of Elie’s first two books, The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach, will be familiar with his interest in complicating the boundary between secular an … | Continue reading
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. | Continue reading
Rachel Gerry at the LARB: In the genre of sanatorium literature, An Infinite Sadness stands apart. It doesn’t have much of the fellow feeling that defines Thomas Mann’s classic The Magic Mountain (1924), in which Hans Castorp, bowled over by love and intellectual companionship, s … | Continue reading
Sahar Delijani in the Los Angeles Review of Books: I am not writing this essay as an author, nor as an activist, nor as a representative of the Iranian people. I am writing this as the daughter of former dissidents who lost the best days of their lives in the prisons of the Islam … | Continue reading
Jasper Craven in Harper’s Magazine: Four days after online sports betting was officially launched in New York State, I got a hot tip from a football player in Pittsburgh. It was January 2022, and Ben Roethlisberger, the lumbering thirty-nine-year-old Steelers quarterback, was tel … | Continue reading