Soccer Diplomacy Comes to the Middle East Iran is rehabilitating the image of a once bitter adversary, Saudi Arabia, in public life. by Salar Abdoh and Reza Ghobeishavi theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/saudi-arabia-iran-soccer-diplomacy/675558/   On the night of September 1, 2023, a Saudi Pro League soccer game was broadcast directly into Iranian homes. Less […]

The Good Life What can we learn from the history of utopianism? Professor Emily Raboteau  reviews  Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Kristen R. Ghodsee https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kristen-ghodsee-utopia/ In the desert of Saudi Arabia, between Jordan and the Red Sea, Crown Prince […]

AT THE END OF A STORY he wrote about the greatest medieval commentator of Aristotle, Borges noted: The instant I stop believing in him, Averroes disappears. As Borges observed, Averroes, who knew everything, could not understand one thing, and that was theater. And so it happened that when he came […]