Juan Cole

Israeli officials responsible for orchestrating, overseeing and materially committing genocide remain in power

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

it was used by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley for a Grateful Dead poster in 1966, and for the cover of the group’s second live album in 1971

How long will sages debate if this world is eternal or created? / Once I have left it, why should I care, either way?

I have been in higher education as a student or professor for over five decades, and I have never seen things as bad as they are now.

As it turns out the high-tech sector that has produced so many billionaires isn’t pro-environment; instead simply pro-billionaire

A Muezzín from the Tower of Darkness cries “Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!”

The bad guys included Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab bloc, along with China, India, and other nations still in thrall to Big Carbon

even the right wing Hindu nationalist government of India has ambitious plans to transition to green energy

A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”