Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

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.”

Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country

Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy