A Retrospective On Ayrton Senna, Formula One’s Last Legend — When people remember Ayrton Senna, they tend to remember moments. His first lap in Donnington Park, 1993, when he made up five places to take first from fifth. His pole position lap in Monaco, 1988, when he posted a time a full 1.4 seconds faster than his teammate, Alain Prost…

An Anecdotal Analysis Of Everyone’s Favorite Conversation Topic — Visiting the Angkor Wat was a sublime experience: a magnificent display of mankind’s ability to inspire awe through piety, devotion, and sheer immensity. Its grandeur, towering over Siem Reap, was unmatched, and when I first saw it at sunrise, enshrouded in the clouds with the sun gently rising over its…

The British Monarchy In A World Beyond Empire — The title “Empress of India” was first bestowed on Queen Victoria in 1876, as a statement of royal dominion over Britain’s most valuable overseas province: India. …

The Myth of Upper Middle-Class Security — What I’ll remember most about that day was the eerie quietude that permeated the entire office. People staring at their computer screens with paralyzed hands and wandering thoughts. Whispers jumping from person to person until an unspoken tension bore down on everything and everyone. For an entire morning, the world…

I’ve always hated February. It’s a completely terrible month. It’s when the romance vultures come out and start picking at my self-esteem with their promise of plasticized love wrapped in neatly-tied heart-shaped chocolate boxes. …

The top four teams, by win-loss record, of the 2017 NFL Season were: New England Patriots, 13–3 Pittsburgh Steelers, 13–3 Philadelphia Eagles, 13–3 Minnesota Vikings, 13–3 So which team was the best? At first glance this question sounds unanswerable. If win-loss records are a complete evaluation of team’s performance over…

A Silicon Valley tragicomedy — One everything bagel, toasted until golden-brown, gently buttered with onion cream-cheese; it’s the most essential part of my weekday routine. It kick-starts the mental gears after a fitful sleep, and holds off the hunger until lunch. I arrive at the eastern entrance of our office at exactly 10:12. I enter…

November 9th, 1938. In the late hours of that day, streets of cities across Germany erupted into anti-Semitic violence. The Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Sturmabteilung (SA), acting on an order from Hitler himself, marched into the Jewish quarter of every town and wreaked destruction, while Hitler’s shadow-bureaucracy pulled the strings…

When I was in elementary school, my biggest wish was to be chosen. For anything, really. I hoped each morning was the one that I would find my Hogwarts letter, leaping out of my mailbox, or when I would be told that while I was unpopular at school, I was…