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Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: You know how we fix the chaos at Columbia University? We listen to a Catholic priest! I’m kidding, obviously. But also not really kidding?
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Throughout history, the most effective one’s have powered to victory on commitment to core values and collective resolve Scott Atran in Aeon: Leonidas, King of Sparta, arrived at Thermopylae with
Irshad Salim: 20+ years ago in the early 2000s, my neighbor Narku from Ghana who was very articulate and well read, and belonged to a Political family, shared thoughts and
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Benjamin A. Schupmann at the Oxford University Press Blog: That a popular candidate could be disqualified from running and removed from the ballot might, at first glance, seem at odds
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Glance: The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers, but from asking the right questions. For the last several years, I’ve been adding to a list
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Joel Mathis, at The Week: Campus unrest over the war in Gaza “has reached a fever pitch in the final weeks of classes,” said The New York Times, with confrontations
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This is How You Make Hard Situations Easier Ryan Holiday at Daily Stoic: Airports are stressful and traveling can be a nightmare. Dealing with a toddler’s tantrum at the grocery
Today’s debates about artificial intelligence (AI) fail to grapple with deeper questions about who we are and what kind of future we want to build. Michael Levin in Noema: They
Yuval Noah Harari in Haaretz: In the coming days Israel will have to make historic policy decisions, ones that could shape its fate and the fate of the entire region
Both global superpowers are building up their capacity for surging robotic warfare. What happens next is anyone’s guess. by Rafi Schwartz at The Week: The latter half of the 20th
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by Aqdas Afzal at Dawn: Predictably, the economic crisis rapidly transformed into a political crisis. This same sea front park became the epicenter of anti-government protests. Soon, the president resigned
If you don’t like people, you hadn’t ought to be in politics at all, and Henry talked about the common people but I don’t think he liked them… —Harry S.
Continue readingThe Butterfly’s Wings: FDR, Truman, and Henry Wallace