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Shared by Ishaq Saqi, ISB: “Both wickedness and stupidity walk the street more confidently when decently dressed.” “Where human beings are concerned, good men and good women are by no
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Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine: WHEN HAMAS TERRORISTS attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and destruction—and also inflamed American prejudice on ethnic and religious grounds. Within hours, allegations of such
Richard Seymour in Sidecar: Was ever a country, in this humour, won? A majority without a mandate, and a landslide that isn’t a landslide. Labour won 64% of the seats
by Ljiljana Radenović at Psyche: On 28 August 1999, I landed in Toronto, Canada, from Belgrade and the war-torn Yugoslavia. I came for graduate studies in philosophy but was eager
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Ken Roth in The Guardian: Julian Assange’s lengthy detention has finally ended, but the danger that his prosecution poses to the rights of journalists remains. As is widely known, the US
From Dawn: IT seems that the goings-on in judges’ homes is not the only thing that piques Big Brother’s curiosity. Our security apparatus also listens to what ordinary citizens are
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Nina L. Khrushcheva at Project Syndicate: One might argue that there is nothing unusual or even particularly problematic about invoking faith to comfort or motivate people in times of crisis;
Patrick McNamara et al in Nature: Around 85% of the global population identifies as religious. Decades of work in the social sciences have found that religious or spiritual beliefs and practices
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Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Some of the party’s problems are hard and have no shortcuts. But the big one – figuring out whether replacing Biden would even help
by Mindy Clegg at 3 Quarks Daily: The Cold War ended somewhere between 1989 and 1991 or if you take the disintegration of Yugoslavia into account, maybe into the 2000s.
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By Matthew Gault at Newsweek: No person is just one thing. I believe that strongly and, like other strongly held convictions, edge cases test me. So it is with Julian
Alizah Holstein at Literary Hub: I first read Einstein’s Dreams in 1993, very shortly after it was published. The author, Alan Lightman, is a physicist at MIT whose writings have illuminated the
Continue readingOn the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s “Einstein’s Dreams”