Alice in Wonderland once inside the rabbit hole found all of the ways she’d understood the world were of little use. Her experience...

Like you, I was born in captivity as were my parents, grandparents, and more remote ancestors going back for many generations where you...

Over the past two years I’ve explored the idea of foreign painter working in Bangkok in three different media. I wanted to go beyond my ...

The title popped out of a book I am reading. Ed Yong’s “I Contain Multitudes”. My plan was to take my mind off politics. Yong’s subject...

The path of Life flows along a narrow road built for limited traffic, at limited speed, and with a limited amount of traffic. Our road is...

The title is a riddle. One I want to explore in this essay. On 8th November most Americans will collectively breath a sigh of relief...

The End of Nations: Is there an Alternative to Countries? addresses the issue of whether the Nation State remains a viable, effective...

In the nearly 30 years I’ve lived in Thailand, not a year has passed without a story from a Thai university where the ritualized hazing...

One of the shortcomings of a military regime that has slipped under the radar is analyzing the method and process used by officials to ...

If I were a time traveller from the future who came to 27th July 2016, I’d let you in on a secret from the future. Who is the ...

Have a look at this Youtube video and witness the raw beauty of the mustang—wild horses that symbolize freedom. We domesticated horses,...

Twenty-four-year old Japanese national Mitsutoki Shigeta, who hired multiple surrogate mothers in Thailand, has been a leading news...

The Idea Room. That incubator where good, bad, stupid, useless and paradigm shifting ideas are hatched is a mental location you use...

In a traditional regime, “Yes, Sir!” is the appropriate (and expected) reply to someone with power, status, and rank. Civilization was...

An author’s reading list contains eccentric choices. This one is no different. Taste and interests are bound to diverge when it comes to...

I’ve finished reading James Barrat’s Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era📷 about the role of AGI...

“Beware of the words “internal security,” for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.” ―Voltaire We all share a theory of mind, which...

George Orwell in 1941 wrote an essay titled Wells, Hitler and the World State that deserves to be revisited in 2015. The re-examination...

I have lived in Thailand the better part of 30 years and hardly a year has passed without an article, opinion piece, or letter to the...

Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow has been the #1 bestselling non-fiction title on the Bangkok Post arts page for over a year....