A Sobering Prophecy About the Rise of China – Modern Age
Karl Haushofer called it a growing “geopolitical giant.”| Modern Age
Karl Haushofer called it a growing “geopolitical giant.”| Modern Age
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Are your answers too vague, generic, or fake? It's not too late to avoid these common MBA essay mistakes, even if you are about to submit.| North Star Admissions Consulting
The first step is resisting simplistic dichotomies.| Modern Age
By Courtland J. Powers-Gunnells What I realized was that I needed to communicate my impact differently. In my portfolio, I began telling the story of how my approach to fundraising centered on what organizations needed most. The post How to separate your personal & professional value from the funds you raise as a fundraiser of color appeared first on CCF.| CCF
By April Walker ...amidst new waves of political chaos and cruelty, I’m back again—this time with an invitation to build community in a new way, namely to make peers and colleagues of our ancestors. The post Imagine raising money for a nonprofit organization while power-obsessed white men wreak havoc on liberty and justice for sport. appeared first on CCF.| CCF
By Michelle Flores Vryn And we know the pieces are shifting. Philanthropy is in flux. DEI efforts are being re-evaluated or quietly shelved. Staff turnover is rattling once-stable institutions. Long-standing funding sources are vanishing. What remains, as my friend Stephanie Green Weizer says, is the “organic matter of our missions”—the values, love, and truth that can’t be extracted or destroyed. From this nutrient-rich core we can build something new. The post What are we growing to...| CCF
By Abigail Oduol The narrative about philanthropy being about charity needs to change. People need to become aware that we are investing in our own futures and in our own collective prosperity. The post We live with abundance. Philanthropy scarcity is fake news. appeared first on CCF.| CCF
By Kristen Corning Bedford What will shake enough people from the dream that any of this is working for anyone, so that we gain the momentum to build the frameworks that can take us into a different future? The post There has never been a more powerful moment to reimagine our entire industry. First, we need to face the facts. appeared first on CCF.| CCF
By Rachel D'Souza But what if those of us in the CCF movement identified and owned our roles on the Social Change Ecosystem Map? What if we worked together — wherever we are with whatever resources we have to give — and trusted others in our movement community to take up space? The possibilities of change make me feel absolutely euphoric. The post Finding our way together: Joining the CCF Movement through the roles of the Social Change Ecosystem appeared first on CCF.| CCF
By Frank Velásquez Jr. ...in this moment, the student suddenly felt, with no reservation, empowered to teach on a subject – a subject he himself has said that he is still learning. This is white privilege in its truest form. The post It’s time allies step up by stepping back appeared first on CCF.| CCF
By Rachel D'Souza If we know that we cannot — and should not — be everything to everyone, how will we get our communities what they need while preserving our energy for the long fight ahead? Now is the time to radically reimagine what could be when we embrace our role in the Social Change Ecosystem. The post Where do we go from here? Introducing the Social Change Ecosystem as a framework for Community-Centric Fundraising appeared first on CCF.| CCF
Impakter Assignment Writing Services in UK – Review of Top websites for Master’s and PhD Papers UK students have to write back-to-back assignments during their academic journey. They deal with more than one subject at a time, which makes it hard to keep everything in balance. To manage this stress, a lot of students look for reliable help with writing assignments to make things easier. PMarketResearch says that almost 70% of […] The post Assignment Writing Services in UK – Review of T...| Impakter
Phoebe Maltz Bovy sits down with the acclaimed essayist to talk cancel culture and identity politics. The post Midlife catastrophizing with honorary Jew Meghan Daum appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News.| The Canadian Jewish News
Nearly 100 years after his birth, the star of Being There remains a fascinating enigma.| Modern Age
In the 1970s, as female flight attendants in the West were fighting gender discrimination, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways were building brands around their sexualised female icons. Are we willing to accept sexism when it subsidises “the nation”?| Jom
The practice of farming in Singapore has gone through several waves of transformation. What are today’s urban farmers trying to achieve?| Jom
Swapping laptops at coffee shops, asking for ideas, sending emails and texts and voice notes are essential to my art| Electric Literature
Derek Halpern, founder of Social Triggers, said – “If you’re not building an email list, you’re an idiot”. We know it’s harsh, but that’s the […] The post Lead Magnets for B2B SaaS: What Works in 2025 appeared first on Vakulski-Group.| Vakulski-Group
The SaaS market is growing fast and it’s projected to reach $390.46 billion by 2025, according to a Statista report. It’s expected to grow further […] The post Best SaaS Remarketing Strategies to Boost Conversions appeared first on Vakulski-Group.| Vakulski-Group
In today’s complex digital landscape, businesses struggle to maximize their online presence. Countless brands are looking for new, unique ways to stand out but fail […] The post SEO and CRO: The Perfect Pair for More Traffic & Higher Conversions appeared first on Vakulski-Group.| Vakulski-Group
Struggling to capture your audience’s attention in an increasingly crowded marketplace? Effective copywriting isn’t just about what you say; it’s also about how you say […] The post AIDA Copywriting Framework: Definition, Examples, Alternatives [2025] appeared first on Vakulski-Group.| Vakulski-Group
Ever found yourself staring at a blank page wondering how to craft a message that resonates with what your audience actually wants? The essence of […] The post PAS Framework: Structure Your Copy for Maximum ROI [2025] appeared first on Vakulski-Group.| Vakulski-Group
Today’s digital landscape is very complex and highly competitive. Many businesses come to us with the same problem – their digital advertising costs are out […] The post PPC and CRO: The Perfect Pair for Higher Conversions & Lower Costs appeared first on Vakulski-Group.| Vakulski-Group
Learn how to improve testing velocity with strategies to accelerate product and website experiments, ensure quality, and boost CRO profitability.| Vakulski-Group
Hitting the Sweet Spot. This phrase has links to sports, advertising, business, and more, and it is generally defined as achieving the optimal outcome by locating the best possible condition for a situation. In baseball, it’s about hitting the ball in the center of the fattest part of the bat barrel. In business, it’s about […]| UGA Undergraduate Admissions
The most vulnerable scene in Materialists, Director Celine Song’s sophomore feature, isn’t a love scene. It’s not when John, a down-on-his-luck artist played by Chris Evans, repeatedly declares his love for Lucy, his ex and matchmaker for New York’s elite played by Dakota Johnson. Nor is it during one of the many dates Harry, Pedro […] The post Jane Austen Did It Better appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
“Run for Your Life,” an excerpt from Turn to Stone by Emily Meg Weinstein “Well, I’d rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man” —Lennon and McCartney, “Run for Your Life” He only said it once, at an Egon Schiele retrospective on the Upper East Side. He was wearing his camel […] The post My Boyfriend’s Lies Cost Me More Than Just Our Relationship appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
I was pregnant, swollen, and tired. I couldn’t get comfortable. I lay on the sofa and loudly said some version of, I’m so swollen and tired. I can’t get comfortable, and dramatically piled pillows beneath my feet, hoping my husband would magically appear with a glass of water. That my legs would swell was expected—it’s […] The post My Favorite Trash TV Is Ruined By Its Ableism appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
The best psychological advice I ever got came from a physical therapist who said: Nine times out of ten, chronic pain in one part of the body comes from weakness in another part. And the solution to that pain is strength, not relief. For close to a year, I was having pain in my left […] The post Emotional Strength Training appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
“masses are always breeding-grounds of psychic epidemics”[1] “psychic epidemics …. destroy the individual.”[2] “As a rule, when the collective unconscious becomes really constellated in larger social groups, the result is a public craze, a mental epidemic that may lead to revolution or war or something of the sort. These movements are exceedingly contagious – […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
Thales College, a liberal arts and professional education institution based in Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted an international essay contest for high school students. In line with its tradition of publishing rising thinkers alongside established humane voices, The University Bookman is publishing the top two essays from the contest.| The Russell Kirk Center
"These American heroes show us that we must be self-reliant, while also being team players and working for the common good. Independence and self-reliance do not make heroes ends in themselves."| The Russell Kirk Center
"Belonging need not disappear just because we value independence. In fact, my generation can redefine individualism—not as isolation, but as a chance to strengthen ourselves so we can support each other better. It's about finding the balance between standing on our own and reaching out a hand when someone else needs it."| The Russell Kirk Center
His mission was “to refine in order to preserve.”| Modern Age
Contra the modernist aesthetes, he believed in “the interdependence of knowledge and virtue.”| Modern Age
Foreign policy requires balancing the interests of all parties.| Modern Age
A classic essay from 1960: libertarians and traditionalists share much in common.| Modern Age
How one 42-year-old overcame fitness information overload and achieved his best transformation ever. Fitness Information Overload: The Hidden Problem Plaguing Smart, Motivated People Joshua thought he had everything he needed to get in shape. At 42, he’d researched countless fitness programs, bookmarked the best nutrition blogs, and downloaded every highly-rated workout app. His browser was […] The post Why Fitness Information Overload Is Sabotaging Your Results (Client Success Story) app...| Justin Thomas Miller
Here’s how to break the all-or-nothing thinking health trap. Ever feel like one “off” meal ruins your whole day? Like, if you didn’t get your workout in, you might as well skip the rest of the week, too? Or that you’ll finally get it together… next Monday? If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Most […] The post Break the All-Or-Nothing Thinking Health Trap | Justin Miller Nutrition Coaching appeared first on Justin Thomas Miller.| Justin Thomas Miller
I chose Sandford because of a photograph I once had. In it, I’m standing outside number 47 with a bottle of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other; my attention has been taken by something out-of-shot and I’m looking to one side, at a cabbage white butterfly perhaps or neighbour sitting on her doorstep. I’m impossibly young, louche, invincible; I have the look of someone who has just struck an exclusive deal with the world that has left them impervious to the buffeting vicissitud...| 3:AM Magazine
Matias Slavov argues that, for all that special relativity shows, time passes. The post Time Passes first appeared on The Philosophers' Magazine.| The Philosophers' Magazine
Transformers take static vector embeddings, which assign single values to every token, and expand their context, nearly simultaneously as they process the context of every other word in the sentence. But who cares, let's listen to a pop song!| The Content Technologist
The first step in natural language processing is creating word-numbers, represented as points in space. If this confuses you, you're not alone. Keep reading.| The Content Technologist
Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present. The post In rural New Mexico, kids paint a sonic portrait of their ghost town appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
Discover the true meaning of Ikigai—not a purpose-finding diagram but a Japanese philosophy for a life worth living through micro-Ikigai, yutori, leisure, and Ikigai-9.| Modern Gypsy
On being Malaysian. A bittersweet love letter to Malaysia.| Elizabeth Tai
As the movie Dead to Rights (Nanjing Photo Studio)《南京照相馆》gains attention in China and globally, some critics wonder: Why bring it up now?| Elizabeth Tai
Writing fiction with AI – most people think it’s letting AI generate the text, slapping it together into an e-book and publishing it. In this article I will show you that this is far fr…| Elizabeth Tai
Hi! I'm Marisabel! Puertorican living the Dutch life. This is my personal web garden to make things grow.| Konfetti Explorations
WILLIE PERDOMO You didn’t go to school to learn how to be a writer. You wrote. So, I dropped out of my first attempt at college after my second year. Dropped out of my second attempt at college after two semesters. You can’t learn to be a writer. But you can wear yourself out garnering experience.| The Common
Do you know Wallace Stevens’s poem, with its strange title, “A Postcard from the Volcano”? It’s included in Ideas of Order, published first in a limited edition in July 1935 and then in a trade edition in October 1936. I reread it recently, and I was spellbound by its first stanza, macabre and sweet, the beginning of a story about memory and imagination. The post Where is Wallace Stevens?: Close Reading “A Postcard from the Volcano” appeared first on Slant Books.| Slant Books
It’s no longer the student who’s shocked by the unwelcome demands made on him or her by the first writing assignment. It’s the teacher who’s shocked, this time by the question of what’s to be done with the result, since it wasn’t the student who wrote the paper, but a computer. But if today’s English teachers are shocked at getting “perfect themes” because AI is writing them, why are they giving assignments for which “perfect themes” are the correct responses?| Slant Books
A Spy in the Footnotes: In Search of John Sherman By David Chambers There was his name in the very first footnote of Eric R. Smith’s 2013 book American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War: John Sherman, working for the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. A few pages later, the notes mention […]| The Volunteer
WILLIE PERDOMO You didn’t go to school to learn how to be a writer. You wrote. So, I dropped out of my first attempt at college after my second year. Dropped out of my second attempt at college after two semesters. You can’t learn to be a writer. But you can wear yourself out garnering experience.| The Common
Harriet Mossop examines pleasure and pain as potential entryways into queer auto-theory in this reflection on 'Locating the “I”: autoethnography as queer methodology', a workshop led by João Florêncio and Edyta Just at the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School.| the polyphony
Kirti Verma explores the critical connections between literature, mental health, and the emergence of medical humanities in India through the work of writer, translator, poet, and editor Jerry Pinto.| the polyphony
Erika Pathó analyses the challenges related to the adoption of a Western-designed dietary measure to manage IBS symptoms in India, focusing on patients’ accounts of their experiences of dietary change.| the polyphony
Alexander Meienberger examines the ongoing cultural and societal stigmas surrounding HIV/AIDS in Russia, highlighting the efforts of cultural initiatives to challenge these barriers and bring visibility to marginalized voices.| the polyphony
Grace Cooke, Lorenzo Meira-Gobel and Rory Hankins ask: what might it mean to approach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching through the lens of the medical humanities?| the polyphony
Martin Mittelmeier— 100 years ago, Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer began their journey to Naples, where they met Walter Benjamin and Alfred Sohn-Rethel. This meeting transformed their way of thinking... READ MORE The post The 100th Anniversary of Critical Theory in Naples appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
James M. Banner, Jr.— Save for mathematical and physical constants like the value of pi and the speed of light, few elements of life on earth are changeless. Everything undergoes... READ MORE The post Unavoidable: Battles Over the Past appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Many of us feel a sense of disconnection and unease in the post-pandemic world. Where do we find everyday guidance?| Kōdō Simone
When style trumps substance and size trumps user interest.| Kōdō Simone
Algorithmic feeds are like a relationship where the other person needs constant validation: “Watch me! Love me! Give me attention!”| Kōdō Simone
Single-task devices create meaningful friction, pockets of intentionality, and contemplation.| Kōdō Simone
Tech companies know that for many of us reality now sucks: that's how they hope you'll slap a pair of giant goggles on your face.| Kōdō Simone
With the recent announcement that Threads.net is starting to integrate with ActivityPub, I figured it would be a good time to remind folks that you can follow me on Mastodon at @jsq@mastodon.social. Many of my connections have moved over from Twitter — but sadly, not all of them. Although, some have moved over to Threads. If you would like to join Mastodon.social, you can use my invite link.| Jesse Squires
Welcome to the fourth (and I think final!) part of my going indie series! Previously, I discussed the exciting topics of business structure, taxes, and retirement. Today, I’m going to discuss two final topics: bookkeeping and invoicing. The first is about how to correctly track your income and expenses, and the second is about making sure you get paid! Because this is capitalism, baby — we are not here for passion, we are here to pay those bills.| Jesse Squires
It was a very mixed bag of reading this month with a bit of fun, a couple of good reads, … More| Thistles and Kiwis
run towards adversity, then run toward home| Semi-Rad.com
thanks, you have no idea how much this means to me| Semi-Rad.com
Bastien’s images and written portion differ stylistically and technically from most articles I’ve published on this blog so far. However, I thought his introspection and images, reminiscent of essays illustrated with Holgas and Agfa Clacks, give a compelling insight into the mind of a musician treating visual art as textures (more so than the content). Read in full on Analog.Cafe.| Analog.Cafe
Battle of Savannah, October 9, 1779. A British victory guaranteed England’s foothold in the American south. Artwork by Graham Turner. The summer of 1778 saw Supreme British commander General …| Revolutionary War Journal
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died 199 years ago today. I once wrote a time-travel story where, on their dying day, Adams and Jefferson were [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
If one were to peruse the list of books I have read since 1996, the first item of note might be the book that started [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
I’m not normally one for prompts, but I saw prompt the other day asking about something the writer learned in high school. I found myself thinking about it throughout the day, and jotting not…| Jamie Todd Rubin
Prof. Arkes’s article in the Texas Review of Law & Politics is hosted at Anchoring Truths with permission. The post Privileges & Immunities: Where Do Barnett & Bernick Lead Us? first appeared on Anchoring Truths.| Anchoring Truths
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.| Center for Humans & Nature
The traditional Malay music produced by a British company in the 1960s and 1970s is an aural guide to history, tradition and the meaning of change.| Jom
Like Singapore, Zhoushan is slowly becoming unmoored from its archipelagic past, losing the gentle rhythms of its sea-bound worlds to the cacophony of capitalism.| Jom
Here are 8 common misconceptions about narcissists that can lead to misidentifying them or being hurt by them: —Myth #1: Narcissists don’t know they are narcissistic. Surprisingly, quite a nu…| Spencer Greenberg
There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions. The post Our Golden Age of Reading (Online) appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
“When people write about the working-class world, which they rarely do, it is most often because they have left it behind,” admits Didier Eribon, in his 2009 French memoir of class transition, Returning to Reims. “They thereby contribute to perpetuating the social illegitimacy of the people they are speaking of in the very moment of speaking about them.” But he can only acknowledge this problem... The post “I Will Write to Avenge My Race”: Baglin, Louis, and Ernaux on Class Transi...| Public Books
To reduce the manifold harms of college football, fiery calls for abolition pointed at university decision makers and public health officials won’t get the job done.| Public Books
Ever since Adam and Eve ate the apple, pride’s gotten a bad rap. A lot of this has to do with language. When we use the word pride, we’re often conflating at least three different concepts: Pride the Behavior. Boasting, showing off, and generally acting in a self-aggrandizing way—usually as a way to compensate for […] The post Optimize for Pride appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
“Eros is an interweaving; Logos is differentiating knowledge, clarifying light. Eros is relatedness, Logos is discrimination and detachment.”[1] “… the whole essence of consciousness is discrimination, distinguishing ego from non-ego, subject from object, positive from negative, and so forth. The separation into pairs of opposites is entirely due to conscious differentiation; only consciousness can […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
“Climate Angels at Extinction Rebellion Declaration Day Melbourne” by John Englart (CC BY-SA 2.0) “I don’t want the same world, just eco.” These are the words of an activist interviewed in the 2021 documentary, Rebellion, directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot. The film tells the story of Extinction Rebellion (XR), arguably one of…Read More| Canopy Forum
This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote for Manufacturing Engineering in March of 1988. It was for the last page of the trade magazine, in a regular feature titled “THE LAST WORD”. You can download a pdf of the original from my MIT website, which has a pencil drawn picture of the 33 year old me (over half my life ago). Below is just the text of that piece, with a few places that I have highlighted as bei...| Rodney Brooks
On the 30th of March, 1981, John Hinckley brought us into the world we all live in today. The post American Idols appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
Christian pacifism irritates because it demands what the biblical scholar Richard Hays calls “the conversion of the imagination”—the overturning of certain assumptions that modernity lives by. The post Militants for Peace appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
July has been full, fast, and hot. Amid work events, several heat waves and some fabulous theater, here’s what I have been reading: Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily HenryI like Henry’s rom-com…| cakes, tea and dreams
Felice Basbøll and Samuel Rubinstein review JCD Clark's "The Enlightment: An Idea and its History".| The Philosophers' Magazine -
Workers have structural power, as the strike wave of 2022 demonstrated. But the working class remains weak and fragmented, and its politics are increasingly chaotic. What is to be done?| New Socialist
by Nikhil Venkatesh // As a novel, ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ is bad. Yet it has become a sacred text of the British labour movement. What can we learn from it today?| New Socialist
Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues.| The Content Technologist
When you look at your social media and blog feeds, ask yourself: Does it spark joy? In this post I discuss my plan to aggressively implement digital minimalism to my blog and newsletter feeds. As much as I want to support all the writers I see online, I have to concede that my bluetooth-sized brain RAM just can't cope with the influx. Also - Substack Notes is far too toxic. It's also funelling my energy and distracting me from writing valuable things. It is in essence, making me a digital sha...| Elizabeth Tai
The experiment illuminated what gave me joy … and what didn’t.| Elizabeth Tai
COVER ART BY ERNEST WILLIAMSON III FICTION TEN MILES OF A RIVER BY THOMAS MIXON HAVE YOU SEEN ME? BY FRANCES ORROK DEADBOLT BY ROSS FEELER LUCKY ENOUGH BY LESLIE PIETRZYK NONFI…| Pithead Chapel
