This Week in the News

Listeners Weigh In on the Russian War on Ukraine

The War on Modernity in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seen through a developmental lens

On Yuval Harari’s “Direction of History” and David Brooks’ “Century of the Strongman?” What’s missing?

Capitol riot, one year later. Democracy in peril, fears on the left and right.

Worlds collide and integrate in Steven Spielberg’s new telling of “West Side Story”

Embrace our inner Jussie? * Techno-optimism

Not “The New York Times” anymore * Horizontal evolution * Integral media

“Morning Joe” Scarborough decries political tribalism as he stokes it * Steve Bannon, grifter or holy warrior?

Coverage and reactions to a major new book, “The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity” by archeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber

Looking at two new books that argue about progress: Our Country Friends, by Gary Shteyngart, and Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce and Why It Matters, by Steven Pinker

A “hard but real compromise is possible” on abortion * The role of women devolves, and evolves, in the Muslim world

The global minimum tax * Facebook and Instagram on the block * Farhad Manjoo cautions against moral panic

The Infrastructure and Reconciliation bills, David Brooks on “Why We Need to Spend $4 Trillion”

John McWhorter says celebrate new gender pronouns * France’s submarine snub * Vaccines in Uganda

A pro-life Christian column: “Texas’s Abortion Law Should Force America to Change Its Ways”

Critiquing David Brooks’ “When Dictators Find God” * Why premodern sensibilities must be integrated, not converted or paved over

Ross Douthet rebuts Brett Stephens on Afghanistan (I believe both of them) * Harvard Divinity School chooses an atheist Head Chaplain

Afghanistan through the developmental lens * The march of the Karens and three definitions of racism

Brett Stephens denounces Biden on Afghanistan * How to think your way to God

The IPCC climate story: religious in a bad way and religious in a good way

Mondo Duplantis pole vaults into integral territory * Heather Cox Richardson and Roxanne Gay on why is everybody so mad * Come In, a poem by Robert Frost

Simone Biles Olympic withdrawal * Seeing the unseen worker, and the unseen aspects of every worker