Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All. An insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
BICS Essay Contest Winners
The winners were chosen based on the power of the arguments presented and on how persuasively the essays made the case for survival of human consciousness beyond a reasonable doubt as though you were in a courtroom. While the judges were reading and re-reading the 204 submitted essays, they were conscious of the great responsibility of choosing the top three. The judges chose these principal winners with exquisite care.
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Locus Award Nominee 2023 Dragon Award Nominee 2023 Seiun Award Nominee 2025 Machines roam the desert in search of purpose; works of art can be deadlier than weapons, and improbable love transcends …
Home - FLI Worldbuilding Contest
It is frequently practiced by creative writers and scriptwriters, providing the context and backdrop for stories that take place in future, fantasy or alternative realities. Worldbuilding is a tool that can help us explore possible futures for our own world. It helps us better understand what sorts of worlds we may find more or less desirable, and how we might get to there. World builds don’t always have to be grounded in reality, but for our worldbuilding contest we asked contestants to make their imagined worlds plausible and aspirational. To better understand the constraints and ground rules that were used for this contest, visit the Rules page prior to exploring the worlds.
The Stuff That Makes the World Go Round (Published 1990)
THE PRIZE The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. By Daniel Yergin. Illustrated. 910 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $24.95.
Ali Alkhatib: On techno-optimism
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
The memo directly mentioned OpenAI’s intensifying competition with Anthropic.
Eyes on the Prize - Chicago Reader
Over more than two decades, Haki and Safisha Madhubuti have proved that African-centered education can amount to more than a black version of history. It can also be a springboard to a bright future.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN, Morning Joe,...
Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?
So far we’ve been discussing Worlding as an art . One that an individual creator can engage in on their own. As Venkat suggested , we are already living in an…
Opinion | The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.
We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation
There are countless initiatives around the world that can inspire people and spur them into action. Amid the devastation of the climate crisis, our journalists strive to highlight these stories of hope
2026 Competitive and Complementary Tools — DAVID C. KRAKAUER
Everything in public life has already ceased to be narrative and no longer follows a thread, but instead spreads out as an infinitely interwoven surface. —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, Chap. 122, “Going Home”
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class
