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How many times do we have to use the tools of the civilization that wants to destroy us, its courts and elections, to stop their destruction? Where is the rule
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Looking at the issue from the point of view of Israel, Professor Kahneman says that peace is difficult – very difficult. “Power imbalance” [1:07] is one of the reasons, he
Mark Blyth and Brett Christophers discuss:
by Jonathan Harris at the Rattle: Slumped in a lawn chair under a pink umbrella a hand fan on his bellyin a jackknifing heat that’s me I see now and
Candida Moss in Time: It is an unlikely success story. A first century religious leader named Jesus was brutally executed as a criminal in first century Jerusalem. His death should have
Continue readingThe Hidden History of Those Who Wrote the Christian Story
Brian Owens in New Scientist: People of different nationalities appear to vary in their use of hand gestures, according to a study that seems to reinforce the idea that Italians, in
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by Rabia Azfar Nizami in The Express Tribune: The democratic structure of governance rooted in accountability, transparency, and public service, now stands marred by shadows of deception and discord within
Continue readingWelcome to Pakistan: Democracy’s Decay: The Senate’s Descent Into Deception
Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins in The Nation: Branko Milanović’s
Continue readingThe Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies
Post-neoliberals are having a moment. If it continues for too long, the result could be a less productive, less resilient, more warlike economy. by Daniel W. Drezner at Reason: The
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John Whitfield in The Guardian: It is a familiar story: a small group of animals living in a wooded grassland begin, against all odds, to populate Earth. At first, they
Continue readingEmpire of the Ants: What Insect Supercolonies Can Teach Us
Nothing to do but work,…. Nothing to eat but food,Nothing to wear but clothes…. To keep one from going nude. Nothing to breathe but air,…. Quick as a flash it’s
“A defeated nation always admires the conqueror, imitating his dress and adopting the signs of his power, such as gold buttons and buttons of authority, insignia of honor, the manner
Continue readingIbn Khaldun on a Failed Nation–Seven Hundred Years Ago