20 minute read. Drawing on decades of research, neuroscientist Christof Koch—longtime Caltech professor and Chief Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science—examines what split-brain patients teach us about the divided mind.
7 minute read. UC Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen reflects on the death of Alan Greenspan at 100, and the mixed legacy of a Fed chair whose tenure vindicated much of what he opposed.
5 minute read. Leiden University’s Andrew Gawthorpe on Iran’s bid to build a new regional order, and why Israel and the US may be unable to stop it.
6 minute read. Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu of MIT says Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical is historic—but stops short of the real question: what should we be designing AI to do?
You don’t need to be Catholic to applaud Pope Leo’s war on AI. iDose Magazine Editor-in-Chief Aly Kamadia comments on the Pope’s historic call to action.
5 minute read. Former German foreign minister and vice chancellor Joschka Fischer: Trump’s Beijing visit revealed a hegemon in retreat—and a Europe sinking even faster.
6 minute read. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, names AI a defining moral challenge of our time. Three Australian Catholic University scholars explain.
6 minute read. Why hasn’t two centuries of free voting curbed inequality? Jeffrey Winters, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, says the answer lies in a blind spot: democracy was built to serve oligarchs all along.
5 minute read. Did Feynman get beauty and truth wrong? Massimo Pigliucci, K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at City College of New York, says yes — and explains why it matters.
Do probiotics actually work? Berenice Langdon, Senior Lecturer at St. George’s, University of London, weighs the evidence behind a booming supplement industry.
4 minute read. Are we watching another tech bubble? Dean Baker (CEPR) revisits the irrational exuberance of the late 1990s, when stocks from Ford to Cisco soared and crashed, and warns today’s AI giants may face the same fate as Chinese rivals squeeze margins.
S. Alex Yang (London Business School) and Angela Huyue Zhang (USC) warn that leading the AI race won’t keep America safe. Mythos-like tools make every nation vulnerable — and demand US-China diplomacy, not triumphalism.
Science is facing a severe crisis of credibility. While high-profile data fabrication makes the headlines, the real threat to public trust lies in a pervasive practice known as “tweaking.” Professor Thomas Plümper (Head of Socioeconomics at Vienna University) and Professor Eric Neumayer (Deputy President of the London School of Economics) break down how the subtle manipulation of empirical data is damaging the scientific process and how academia can fix it.
5 minute read. “A superpower that once felt invulnerable must now reckon with adversaries that can drain its coffers, bleed its allies, and upend its strategic calculations,” warns Brahma Chellaney of the Center for Policy Research, signaling that the era of cost-free US wars is definitively over.
5 minute read. A nation’s military is like a fire extinguisher — you keep one because you’re prudent, not because you want to use it, argues Lee Cronk, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
In this urgent geopolitical Q&A, Aly Kamadia, Editor-in-Chief of iDose Magazine, breaks down the catastrophic US-Israeli war on Iran, exploring the dangerous mix of regional ambitions, religious extremism, and asymmetric warfare.
5 minute read. Both Washington and Tehran share blame for the breakdown that led to war, writes Vice Provost Mehrzad Boroujerdi, tracing how mutual distrust, Israeli influence, and strategic rigidity led to war.
4 minute read. The US and Israel are bombing Iran — and SOAS Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam warns this illegal war could drag the entire world into crisis.