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Today, when only 28 pct of Americans are satisfied with democracy, why would anyone look to the U.S. as a model? Stefan Katz at the Bulwark: IT IS NO SECRET
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Erik Baker in the Boston Review: One of the courses I teach is called “Science, Activism, and Political Conflict,” and one of my ambitions with that course is to show
Is spiritualism and materialism paradoxical? Can they coexist? Is the inference that occult is akin to or similar to spiritualism a valid argument? The groupthink that “all-round and harmoniously developed
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By Anatoly Liberman at OUP: The Hebrew word “hostages” can be translated into English as “children of surety,” and in many languages the word for “hostage” means both “security, pledge”
Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo: Despite President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s impassioned denials, and the self-censorship of the New York Times, almost four in 10 likely voters
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“Since then, we’ve gotten out of the habit” Benjamin Parker at The Bulwark: Escalation management is a real thing—a lot of ink was spilled in the Cold War thinking about
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Chas Newkey-Burden at The Week: The ICC – not to be confused with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which hears cases brought against nation states – is the “world’s
Samuel Moyn, a law professor at Yale University, prefers voters to judges Damir Marusic and Osita Nwanevu at Wisdom of Crowds: Last December, the highest court in the State of
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Jacob Sullum at Reason: Jurors in Donald Trump’s trial at the New York County Criminal Courthouse in Manhattan have heard a lot about paying people to keep their mouths shut. The
Jeremy Hsu in New Scientist: Artificial intelligence is enabling India’s politicians to be everywhere at once in the world’s largest election by cloning their voices and digital likenesses. Even dead
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“If we are to reclaim our university, faculty and students must do it together.” By Nara Milanich at Time: Faculty have different opinions about the substance of the student protestors’
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The Ideas Letter: The war in Gaza has inspired powerful protest, unyielding contestation, and claims of genocide. In this issue, we solicited three contributions that aim to bring new perspectives
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