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by Santiago Ramos at The Wisdom of Crowds: Both sides do it. On Sunday, the Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro accompanied Ukrainian president Vlodymyr Zelensky on a photo op
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“the fissures in the judiciary, military and the media, are reflective of larger breakdown of structures that once sustained the ruling dispensation.” … Continue readingAmmar Ali Jan on Why ‘Pakistani State Has Fallen Into an Unprecedented Crisis of Legitimacy’
by Dr Syed Ali Mujtaba at Clarion India: THE Hindus were shocked to learn recently that the scared ‘laddus’ at the Tirupati Temple contains beef, pork, and fish particles. Lab
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David Feldman in The Ideas Letter: Over the last 100 years, the struggle against antisemitism and the struggle against racism have at times appeared inextricably connected, firmly allied in a
From Aaj TV Official on YouTube: Some talking points and perspective of renowned Pakistani intellectual, scholar and policy analyst Javed Jabbar:
An unfortunate status that Viet Nam shares with Palestine is that the war in Viet Nam was both an actual war and a spectacle for global viewership. … Continue readingPulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on How Hollywood Has Become the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Unofficial Ministry of Propaganda
From the Jacobin: The language of Karl Marx’s Capital, which was originally published in 1867, has shaped the political imagination of socialism’s proponents as well as its critics. From the
“It is important to realize that any country goes through a period of unrest, to an extent, in a post-revolution period.” … Continue readingSecurity Expert ANM Muniruzzaman: Bangladesh is Amid a Serious Security Threat
by Daniel H. Magilow at The Conversation: (A)ccusations – that fake-looking images are real, that real-looking ones are fake – have been a common feature in politics, particularly among extremists,
How does order emerge from anarchy? How do human beings create institutions? Can big problems like climate change, income inequality… … Continue readingA Fun Introduction to Public Choice Theory and Polycentricity
by Stephen Gadsby and Sander Van de Cruys at Psyche: Conspiracy theories are seemingly everywhere. To explain their prevalence, many commentators point to the gullibility of conspiracy theorists. According to
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Historian Chen Jian has published a monumental biography of Zhou Enlai that makes him the pre-eminent scholar of the contemporary Chinese diaspora. … Continue readingZhou Enlai: Made By the Revolution