7 minute read. Tim Christiaens of Tilburg University reviews Cecilia Rikap’s The Rulers, which argues Big Tech rules through intellectual monopolies — controlling knowledge, data, and cloud infrastructure without owning much at all.
5 minute read. Seven months in, no exit in sight. Amin Saikal of the Australian National University on why Trump is trapped in the Iran war.
7 minute read. Allianz Chief Economic Adviser Mohamed El-Erian argues the global economy has entered a perpetual, directionless transition—and explains why resilience, agility, and optionality now beat any forecast.
6 minute read. Rioters or reformers? Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, revisits the real story of the Luddites in the age of AI.
6 minute read. No invasion. No occupation. No end. Bamo Nouri & Inderjeet Parmar (University of London) on the new type of forever war Trump may have started.
6 minute read. With wildfire smoke and extreme heat impacting Canada, the U.S. and Europe, Farhan M. Asrar, MD (Toronto Metropolitan University), shares who’s most at risk and how to reduce exposure.
6 minute read. Is fascism liberalism’s own child? Political scientist Gábor Szabó reviews Žižek.
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.