HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features How AI Can Transform Your Organization: Streamline operations, spur innovation, and win over skeptical employees.
Harvard Business Review – January/February 2025
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Philosophy Now Magazine – February/March 2025
PHILOSOPHY NOW MAGAZINE (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Political Philosophy For Our Times’ – Was Machiavelli really so bad?…
Too Late To Awaken by Slavoj Žižek
T.W.J Moxham reads Slavoj Žižek’s little book of Hegelian horrors.
Exploring Atheism
Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism.
London Review Of Books – February 6, 2025 Preview
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features David Runciman on President $Trump; Versions of Hamas and Toril Mok on Vigdis Hjorth…
Tom Stevenson: Hamas: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell
Jessie Childs: The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin
Michael Wood: At the Movies: ‘The Brutalist’
Alex de Waal: How to Measure Famine
Michael Dobson:
White People in Shakespeare: Essays in Race, Culture and the Elite edited by Arthur LittleShakespeare’s White Others by David Sterling BrownThe Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare while Talking about Race by Farah Karim-Cooper
Katherine Rundell: Why children’s books?
The Economist Magazine – February 1, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (January 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Revolt Against Regulation’….
Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way
Done right, deregulation could kick-start economic growth
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
Donald Trump’s chaotic aid freeze makes his country weaker
The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI
The Progressive Magazine – February/March 2025
THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Defending Immigrants’; The Colony Problem; Indigenous Behind Bars and Universal Basic Income….
Better Gun Storage Can Prevent Tragedies
Right now, only eight states have laws explicitly requiring safe storage for guns. If we want to save lives, we need an immediate prevention plan. Read more
Reports: Tufts Health & Nutrition – February 2025
TUFTS HEALTH & NUTRITION LETTER (January 27, 2025):
Mind Your Heart
Practicing mindfulness may have heart-healthy benefits.
This Valentine’s Day, savor a bite of good chocolate, linger over a meal with a loved one, close your eyes and breathe in the scent of those flowers, or focus on the beauty of your surroundings as you take a peaceful nature walk. These activities are examples of ways you can practice mindfulness.
2025 Food Trends
Some emerging food trends have potential health benefits—with some caveats.
Brain-Boosting Supplements?
Most of the promises made about these products lack proof.
About 25 percent of adults over 50 take a supplement that promises to improve cognition or cognitive health. As long as these products don’t say they improve or treat diseases like Alzheimer’s or other dementias, they are allowed to make any claims they want—without having to prove they work. So, which marketing claims should you believe?
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 3, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 27, 2025): The latest issue features Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger” – The city’s ubiquitous winged creatures can be an unexpected source of inspiration.
Trump’s Attempt to Redefine America
The effect of the President’s executive orders was to convey an open season, in which virtually nothing—including who gets to be an American citizen—is guaranteed. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
A reporter embeds with wildland firefighters during one of the deadliest blazes in California history. By M. R. O’Connor
A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
Mazen al-Hamada fled Syria to reveal the regime’s crimes. Then, mysteriously, he went back. By Jon Lee Anderson
The Spectator World Magazine – February 2025
THE SPECTATOR WORLD (January 24, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Hard Pressed’ = How legacy media finally lost its influence…
How the legacy media became powerless
The 2024 election seems to sound the final knell for an industry that managed to hang on well past its prime
The California fires and the reckoning on liberal governance
As the smoke clears, we are left to survey the wreckage, pick up the pieces and rebuild — and learn lessons that prevent
The Trump Resistance is almost dead in DC
Steve Bannon called Trump ‘America’s Cincinnatus’ and Mark Zuckerberg ‘a criminal who deserves to be in prison’
Is J.D. Vance MAGA’s future?
The vice president may soon emerge as the architect of a new political settlement
President Trump’s ‘First Hundred Hours’
His rapid actions are meant to change the nation’s direction and underscore that change
History Today Magazine — February 2025 Preview
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features the destruction of medieval England’s Jews, British soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, unreported murder in East Germany, ‘mad duchess’ Elizabeth Cavendish, and more.
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
For the Portuguese empire to rise, an old world had to give way. Rivals in Europe’s lucrative spice trade, how much did they know about the powerful Mamluk sultanate?
Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour.
Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
The changing climate of the Little Ice Age forced radical thinkers to reconsider humanity’s place in the universe.
‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by John J. Callanan revels in the making of the controversial satirist and philosopher.
The New York Review Of Books – February 13, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features…
Urgent Messages from Eternity
An exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages rekindles our sense of him as a writer deeply connected to his own time and place.
Franz Kafka – an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, May 30–October 27, 2024, and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, November 22, 2024–April 13, 2025
Guatemala: Democracy Imperiled
Bernardo Arévalo’s inauguration last year as president of Guatemala symbolized the revival of democracy in a notoriously corrupt country. A concerted effort by obstructionist elites now threatens to oust him on specious grounds—and bring repression back.
Farmer George
Bruce Ragsdale’s Washington at the Plow examines the connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale
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