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By Joseph S. Nye Jr. at Time: As election year politics heat up, Donald Trump proclaims that he can “Make America Great Again” and Joe Biden promises a brighter future,
Continue readingAmericans Have a Long History of Worrying About Declinism
At Daily Stoic: So many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…and they have ever since it was first discovered after the emperor’s death nearly twenty centuries
Continue readingGuide to Reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
William Kristol and Andrew Egger at The Bulwark: All around us, there are indications—I’m tempted, in honor of Passover next week, to call them signs and portents—of a new era.
A Podcast at Wisdom of Crowds: Many attempts have been made to deal with polarization. A lot of it has to do with putting people with diverging perspectives face-to-face in
by Chinese writer Chua Qinling published in March 2023: The biggest threat to the United States of America is not China, but peace. World peace will put an end to
Continue readingWhoever Wants World Peace Should Shun War Economy, and War Trade
Mark Manson, the #1 NY Times Bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k and Everything Is F**ked: A Book About Hope–he writes life advice that is
Annie Jacobsen in New Scientist: As an investigative journalist, I write about war, weapons, national security and government secrets. I’ve previously written six books about US military and intelligence programs
Continue readingAnnie Jacobsen: ‘What if We Had a Nuclear War?’
Nick Hunt in Noema: Returning home after being away for any length of time is strange. The Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta, who journeyed 70,000 miles across much of the 14th-century Islamic
Henry Louis Gates, Jr at The New Yorker (from 1995): The two weeks spanning the O. J. Simpson verdict and Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Washington were a good time
Liz Wolfe at Reason: Republicans confirmed yesterday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) plans to attempt to pass four separate bills to provide funding to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan and to address
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a bipolar new world order amid disorder, and shared with few observers, analysts for their views.
by Ashutosh Jogalekar: As the saying goes, if you believe only fascists guard borders, then you will ensure that only fascists will guard borders. The same principle applies to scientists