Reading List by Rochelle Dsouza - Year 2025 - 22nd December

Hi 

Sharing this week’s list of 20 articles

1. https://aeon.co/essays/the-word-religion-resists-definition-but-remains-necessary

2. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/18/why-the-arab-spring-was-never-a-failure

3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/21/the-guardian-view-on-gene-editing-breakthroughs-need-a-new-social-contract

4. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-new-discontents/202512/is-social-media-dying

5. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-has-public-history-changed-1951

6. https://daily.jstor.org/when-americans-started-bathing/

7. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/peacemaking-as-an-economic-strategy-investing-in-conflict-prevention-by-mariana-mazzucato-and-rainer-kattel-2025-12

8. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/place-and-revolution/articles/hollow-temples

9. https://time.com/7340807/history-debate-insurance-glp-1s/

10. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-linguists-are-creating-a-new-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic-languages-with-help-from-curse-tablets-and-roman-records-180987872/

11. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

12. https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/

13. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/

14. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/20/how-chess-helped-me-understand-grief

15. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/20/words-of-the-year-six-seven-teenagers

16. https://aeon.co/essays/the-hidden-role-of-pride-and-shame-in-the-human-hive

17. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/patient-zero/202512/theory-determines-what-psychiatry-and-medicine-think-and-do

18. https://daily.jstor.org/playing-with-consciousness/

19. https://philosophynow.org/issues/171/Ancient_Indian_Wisdom_for_a_Restless_Age

20. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/disney-was-in-distress-during-the-late-1940s-then-cinderella-came-to-the-rescue-and-saved-the-company-from-financial-disaster-180987886/

Happy Reading