About & Masthead

What we publish

The Global Polymath is an English-language weekly — a compact tabloid in the older, more dignified sense of the word — whose beat sits at the intersection of three usually separate conversations: empirical science, human philosophy, and global law. We write for readers who want the arguments assembled in one place, with the seams left visible.

Our print edition appears each Saturday; our Weekly Dispatch, a free email digest, arrives by Friday lunchtime. A small number of long-form essays are released monthly under the Saturday Lyceum imprint; they are, deliberately, the slowest things we do.

Editorial posture

We have institutional opinions — we carry an editorial page, under the byline “The Polymath’s View” — but we avoid polemic. We prefer, when we can, to argue with ourselves in print, and to let our readers listen in.

A note on sources

We cite everything. Every number in our pages can be traced through to a primary source, and every quotation is on the record unless marked otherwise. Where the record is ambiguous, we say so.

A note on voice

This publication’s house style permits the semicolon, the parenthetical, and the occasional Latinism. It forbids the exclamation mark, the cliché, and the business-school verb “to leverage.” Our readers, we assume, are adults.

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Mostafa Kamal Russell — engineer, advocate, and polymath — founded the publication in 2012 as a quarterly. It became a weekly in 2018. He continues to edit each issue from Dhaka, with bureau support in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. His personal site is at drrussellmostafakamal.com; his YouTube channel is @EngineersAdvocateMohammedMosta.