Keen On
By Andrew Keen
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Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON.
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known technology and politics broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running show How To Fix Democracy and the author of four critically acclaimed books about the future, including the international bestselling CULT OF THE AMATEUR.
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Episode : Robert Pearl MD explains how AI can regenerate the American medical system
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2041: Dr. Judy Ho on how we can stop f*****g ourselves up
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of America's professional elites
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2034: Dale Maharidge tells American liberals to look in the mirror to understand the Doom Loop now engulfing their country
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2029: How to House America?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2014: B. Janet Hibbs explains why not-so-young Americans are retreating home to their parents and the other certainties of their former childhood
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird S**t
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 1975: Ira Shapiro explains how Mitch McConnell Betrayed America
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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EPISODE 1974: Getting beyond Oppenheimer
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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A Belated February Reading List
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Navigating the labyrinth of Argentina's bankrupt economy
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Why we remember and why we forget
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Waking Up White
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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A Brave New World of AI, Virtual Reality and Memetic Culture
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Against Marriage
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Why the Shadows of Socrates still haunt us today
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The forced erasure of gays from 20th century American life
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Biggest Liberal Loser or an Iconic Progressive?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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In defense of geeky intellectuals
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Why do we seem to have so little free time?
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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And the Oscar goes to.....
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Unpacking the Facebook tragedy
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Will Putin ever die?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Should Americans pursue virtue or happiness?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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A Case for Reparations
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Exposing Hollywood's most notorious interwar celebrity spy
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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What chance peace in Israel?
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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How to write a #1 global bestseller
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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How Tucker Carlson's Putin interview captures today's "new, new media" revolution
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Uncovering the world's mightiest (and tiniest) narco-state
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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in defense of cultural liberalism
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Do nations have psychologies and can they experience collective trauma?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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After Rape
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Born in Blood: Scott Gac explains why violence is the defining feature of American history
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Can the American university survive the 21st century? Nicholas Dirks explains why American universities need to reinvent themselves in our winner-take-all age of social media and AI
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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How to Win the Global Battle to Power our Lives? Ernest Scheyder on the new economic war between China and the West to control critical minerals like lithium, copper and cobalt
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Why Scientific Truth Might Be Infinitely Weirder Than Scientific Fiction: Mike Chen on "A Quantum Love Story"
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Should Elon Musk have publicly visited Auschwitz? Keith Teare on Musk, X, Instagram and the breakdown of civility in our social media age
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Why today's internet is simultaneously autocratic and plutocratic: Ehud Shapiro on the egalitarian architecture necessary to build genuine digital democracy
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Why Writing a Book is an Act of Free Will: Kevin Mitchell on free agency and how evolution gave us free will
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Why Does Everything Need To Be About Race? Keith Boykin on Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and why the real function of racism is distraction
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Suburbia and American Disillusionment: Benjamin Herold on the unravelling of both America's suburbs and the American dream
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The War for Israel's Soul: Bernard Avishai on the age old battle in Israel between globalists and messianic Zionists
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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A Winston Churchill for our TikTok age? Simon Shuster on Volodymyr Zelensky, the workaholic improv politician who needs to be loved by his Ukrainian people
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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A venture capitalist imagines a world after capital: Albert Wenger on work, leisure and the environment in the AI age
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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In Trouble With Gender: Alex Byrne explores slippery sex facts and factual gender fictions
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Can AI produce genuine culture? Martin Puchner on the future of artistic creativity in the age of the smart machine
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Radically reinventing America in upstate New York: Susan Danzinger on how to effectively put philosophy into action
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Why Generative AI represents an existential threat to the creative community: Ed Newton-Rex warns about the dire consequences of generative AI companies "scraping" data without acknowledging its creators
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Cult of the Algorithm: Hilary Mason peers behind the hidden door of AI, gaming and storytelling
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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What killed capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis' murder mystery about the death of capitalism and our descent into "techno feudalism"
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Don't Trust Us: Frank Vogl exposes the marketing scammers behind the increasingly mainstream success of cryptocurrency
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Why there might be a ghost in all our smart machines: Kenneth Cukier on AI, spirituality and a new humanism in our digital age
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Unlocking and decrypting 2024: Azeem Azhar on AI's impact on politics, economics and society in the coming year
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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The Wicked Art of the Gothic Thriller: Abbott Kahler on writing unnerving literature about unnerving times
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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10 must read books for 2024: Bethanne Patrick on intriguing fiction and non-fiction to read in the new year
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Is the current AI boom just another Silicon Valley bubble? John Thornhill separates the truth from the fiction of today's AI hysteria
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Confessions of a Disillusioned Social Scientist: Brian Klaas on why we are all random accidents of chance and chaos
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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How foreign lobbyists in America threaten democracy around the world: Casey Michel on the dirty overseas money sloshing around both sides of American politics
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Should you have sex with your robot?
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Should you have sex with your robot? Eve Herold on our narcissistic echo-chamber culture in which we are falling in love with our robots (ie: ourselves)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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How American healthcare is rigged against ethical doctors and poor patients: Dr Robert Pearl explains how the system can be reformed in 2024
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Why a future of digitally connected brains is now on the horizon: PJ Caldas on the networked tsunami that is about to transform all our realities
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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What happens when AI "drifts"? Dominique Shelton Leipzig offers protection from the high-risk dangers of algorithmic malfunction
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Turning writing into a habit that lasts: Bec Evans on how to start and finish books and why binge writing isn't a bad habit
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Why all crises of capitalism are caused by moral failures: Colin Mayer on the social responsibility of business in every industry, from oil to tobacco to genetic engineering and AI
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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That Will Be The Year: Keith Teare predicts the major political, economic and technological developments for 2024
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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How to learn to tell the truth about ourselves: Dr .Annie Zimmerman explains how therapy can allow us to break free from old patterns and transform our lives
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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The Illusion of More: David Newhoff explains why we don't need GenerativeAI to make good art
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Eyeless in Digital Gaza: Eryk Salvaggio sifts through the debris of our AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we see
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Why Impeachment remains an Indelible Stain on the Presidencies of Nixon, Clinton and Trump: Michael J. Gerhardt's guide for engaged citizens to the the law of Presidential impeachment
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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How to break out of the tyranny of the travel search box: Rafat Ali on the impact of AI on the travel industry
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Why OpenAI has an Uber problem
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Why OpenAI has an Uber problem: Tim O'Reilly explains how all successful companies depend on successful ecosystems
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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A former mobster's history of organized crime in America
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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A former mobster reveals the history of organized crime in America: Louis Ferrante charts the meteoric rise of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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We've Been Here Before: Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer both radically new and historically trusted strategies for resisting neo-liberalism
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritative political leaders
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Why predicting the future of tech is for fools: Keith Teare looks back at 2023 and gives some hints as to what might happen in 2024
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Digging into the crate of Roman history: Hari Kunzru on our nostalgia for vinyl records and the reappearance of ethnic nationalism in Italy
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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How everyone, even Benjamin Netanyahu, has a soul: Noa Yedlin explains why literary humor isn't a funny thing and imagines the kind of character Netanyahu might be in a novel
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Why bankers represents both the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of American capitalism: Gerard Epstein on how to bust the bankers' club and create a more equitable financial system for the rest of us
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Against the chronic short-termism that undermines how we think about money and value: Charles Crowson explains why time really matters in economics
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Why 2023 was the year in which we finally got to converse with AI: Kevin Surace explains why creative artists must master AI technology in 2024
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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The KEEN ON 2023 Fiction Awards: Bethanne Patrick's six favorite novels of the year
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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In Defense of Henry Kissinger's "pragmatic realism": Charles Kupchan critiques the illusional idealism that he believes has undermined American foreign policy over the last decade
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Why the 21st Century will be the Asian Century: Kishore Mahbubani on the end of Western domination and the rise of Asian societies, economies and philosophies
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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International anarchy, murderous crime lords and the 21st century nation-state: Miles Johnson explains how the violence of today's international criminal gangs mirror the authoritarian politics of our age
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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How AI can fix the future of healthcare, education and climate: Mark Minevich imagines a planet positively powered by AI
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Among the Criminal Bros: Max Marshall on a Fraternity crime story that reflects the rigged system of money and power in 21st century America
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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The victory of the gut over reason: Kevin Casas-Zamora worries about the fragile state of democracy around the world in 2023
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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On the Dire State of the Free Press in 2024: Andy Lee Roth explains how "solutions journalism" offers a more truthful alternative to corporate owned media in America today
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Why AI will radically disrupt traditional internet search engines: Keith Teare on Google, OPenAI and the crisis of online search economics
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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How collaborating on #CrimeTime strengthened this couple's marriage: Jeneva Rose and Drew Pyne discuss their TikTok driven crime mystery based on an actual robbery in their Chicago apartment building
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Is there really rampant anti-semitism at elite American universities like Columbia? Shai Davidai on what these universities should be doing to confront anti-semitism and foster a two-state peace between Israelis and Palestinians
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The 19th century American explorer who exposed the brutality of the Russian imperial system: Gregory Wallance on the original George Kennan and his epic journey through the frozen heart of Russia
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Wall Street's Assault on Democracy: Georges Ugeux explains how today's financial markets exacerbate inequalities, create unsustainable government debt and foment authoritarianism
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Getting to Know Ella Fitzgerald Through Her Music: Judith Tick on the canonical jazz singer who transformed both American song and culture
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Five of the Non-Fictional Best: Bethanne Patrick picks her favorite non-fiction books for 2023
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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How Not To Age: Dr Michael Greger offers a simple dietary approach to getting healthier as we get older
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Why it's time stop declaring war on everything: David Keen on the "Wreckonomics" of how we now find ourselves locked into so many failed economic, environmental and political policies
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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How our brains mirror the history of human evolution: Min W. Jung on the neuroscience of imagination and abstract thinking
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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A Return to Normal Abnormality in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on why even some of the most highly capitalized AI start-ups are now running out of runway and will not survive
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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In Praise of Ineffective Altruism: Amy Schiller on how philanthropy went wrong and how to fix it
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Should we let go of Philip Roth? Hannah Gold gets into Roth's mind, his hands and his followers
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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In Defense of Trash Talk: Rafi Kohan on Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Elon Musk and why talking smack is as old as the Bible
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Why even the smartest machine vision won't eliminate bias: Jill Walker Rettberg on how algorithms are changing the way we see and are seen by the world
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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When Language Was Up For Grabs: Ben Lerner warns against falling in love once again with the promise of digital technology to democratize language
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The First Neo-Liberal or the Last Conservative? Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, the most controversial American economist of the 20th century
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Why American humor isn't really being cancelled by the woke police: Kliph Nesteroff's history of showbiz and its perennial culture wars
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Why all great geniuses are also rebels: Bulent Atalay on how Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Newton, Beethoven and Einstein all shared similarly transgressive minds
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The Closing of the American Conservative Mind: Peter Wehner on the nihilism of the evangelical right in America today
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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We live our lives in small details: Lauren Grodstein on why she changed her mind about writing a novel about the Holocaust
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Why the "Words of Cesar Chavez" still matter: Peter Slen on the labor leader, Christian Socialist and voice of Hispanic America
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The book that transformed how Americans think about economics: Peter Slen on the impact of Rose and Milton Friedman's 1980 defense of free market capitalism, "Free to Chose"
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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In defense of digital education: William B. Eimicke on how to level the learning curve and create a more inclusive and connected university
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Is the current Gazan ceasefire a mirage?Jason Pack on Qatar, Iran, Biden, Hamas, Israel and the road to order in the disordered Middle East
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Ten Ways of Winning Differently in the AI Age: Kate Bravery's truths about work, skills and education in the smart machine epoch
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Digital Lennonism: Marga Hoek imagines how tech can solve some of the world's greatest challenges
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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The Last Ships from Hamburg: Steven Ujifusa on the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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OpenAI , Sam Altman and the new war over capitalism in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on the moral fight over technological progress triggered by the OpenAI brouhaha
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Eight brilliant books to give this Xmas: Bethanne Patrick's list of literary gifts that will delight even the most discerning reader
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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The Shame of America's Six Million Homeless People: Kevin F. Adler on the forgotten humanity and broken systems causing today's American homelessness crisis
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Why only humans can imagine the future: Margaret Heffernan on art, creative uncertainty and the insatiability of AI moguls like Sam Altman
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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How to protect our all-too-human superpower of creative thinking: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger on the guardrails needed to regulate big data companies like OpenAI
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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A Uniquely Glittering Literary Club: Christopher De Hamel on the remarkable people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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So what, exactly, is "equality"? Darrin McMahon on the history, from antiquity to today, of this most elusive idea
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Why women might make better spies than men: Anna Pitoniak on the art of espionage and the tradecraft of the spy novelist
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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How the October 7 tragedy might turn out to be a game changer in a good way: Israeli writer Assaf Gavron on why we must "try again" to make peace in the Middle East
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Six all-too-human books about AI: Bethane Patrick on the mavens, mavericks and mythology writing our smart machine future
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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This was the week that the world dramatically changed: Keith Teare celebrates the beginning of the end of the pre AI age
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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A classic novel that not only shaped America but also captured the authentic voice of the African-American South: Peter Slen on Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", an anthropological fiction set in a particularly rough period in American
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Why genuine neutrality was mostly a myth in the Second World War: Neill Lochery on the flight of Nazi treasure through "neutral" countries after the war
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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How to write poetry on a smartphone: Best-selling poet and TikTok sensation Whitney Hanson on the anxiety of her generation and why social media makes physical events more "real"
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The dark truth of Mexico as a mostly truant state terrorized by subsistence gangsters and haunted by hollow people: Azam Ahmed on the story of a missing daughter, a violent Cartel and a mother's quest for vengeance
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Do great leaders make history or does history make great leaders? Moshik Temkin on the art of leadership from FDR, Malcolm X and MLK to Trump and Biden
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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How to accurately reconstruct the entire 13.9 billion year history of the universe: David Helfand on the power of atomic science to unveil the mysteries of unreachably remote time and space
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Turning Mrs Dalloway into a novel set in the New York City of April 2017: Lisa Gornick on writing a New York story in the philistine age of the Taliban and Donald Trump
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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An Unprincipled Man for our Unprincipled Times: Rob Copeland on Ray Dalio, the billionaire Big Brother of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How early 21st century America resembles late 19th century Russia: John Gray on our post-liberal future
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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The double life of America's most notorious agent of betrayal: Major Garrett on Robert Hanssen, the FBI spy and weaver of a web of lies, both outrageously large and pathetically small
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How to make the most of college: Ben Wildavsky on the art of using college to build a career
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Why the American mass incarceration system is jarringly unamerican: Ben Austen on parole, prison and the near impossibility of change in the current American criminal justice system
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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In defense of literary flyover country: Peter Slen on Willa Cather's "My Antonia", the 1918 novel that captured the ideal of immigrant middle America
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Orwell and his women: Bethanne Patrick on new feminist takes on George Orwell - the man , the husband and the writer.
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Guilty by seven crimes and death by a thousand verticals: Keith Teare on Sam Bankman-Fried and Palo Alto, Elon Musk and Rishi Sunak, and Space X and X
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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How to get more women in science right now: Lisa Munoz on implicit bias, leaky pipelines, tokenization and other explanations for the persistent gender gap in science
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Did the KGB really invent the idea of the Palestinian nation in the 1960s? Pierre Rehov on Iranian financed sleeper-cells in US universities and why he admires Hamas' "evil mind"
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Overcoming the politics of black grief and white grievance in America today: Juliet Hooker on why American democracy is in desperate need of an radical expansion of its political imagination
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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A remarkable American hero at a time in which many Americans are no longer comfortable with the heroic ideal: Ronald C. White on the life of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the unlikely hero of Gettysburg
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The problem with stories about the Holocaust is that they are told by the survivors: Daniel Finkelstein on the extraordinary coincidences enabling the survival of his mum and dad from both Hitler and Stalin
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Zero to Zero: William Deresiewicz on what happens when the price of online content is driven down to zero
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Where have all the Democrats gone? Ruy Teixeira on why the Democratic Party needs to tone down the volume on cultural issues if it's to rediscover its soul
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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How this month's "almost miraculous" Polish election might be a hopeful sign for democracy everywhere: Maciej Kisilowski on the promise and peril of representative democracy in a post authoritarian Poland
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Does today's climate change crisis represent an existential threat to humanity? Antonello Provenzale contextualizes the contemporary crisis within a history of climate change from the earth origins to the Anthropocene
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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An enigmatic city teetering on the edge of the world: John Kampfner on Berlin, a city of ghosts and memories where he can still smell the Wall
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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A Theory of Everyone (but not Everything): Michael Muthukrishna on how human-beings are a new kind of animal and why we need to transform the world into the most efficient laboratory possible
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Why Americans have the constitutional right to sometimes lie: Jeff Kosseff protects free speech in our digital age of misinformation
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Eight literary tricks and treats to scare you this Halloween: Bethanne Patrick on "app-aritions", cultural ghosts and unfamiliarly familiar haunted houses
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Why our cyborg AI future may already have arrived in the trained-on-jargon "person" of Sam Bankman-Fried: Hito Steyerl on pyramid schemes, on-boarding tools and the "mean" creativity of our AI age
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Is the venture capital industry a big ponzi scheme? Keith Teare separates the hyperbole from the hysteria of VC techno-optimism
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The American Shakespeare or trash of the veriest sort? Peter Slen on Mark Twain's ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, the adventurous story of a young man and young nation on a great and not-so-great adventure
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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A Graphic Diary of the War in Ukraine: Nora Krug on the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist in the first year of Russian invasion
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Dismal Science investigates that most dismal of things - economic inequality: Branko Milanovic on visions of inequality from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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That Sinking Feeling of Falling Out of the Middle Class: Ray Suarez on his fear of being poor in the America of the inegalitarian Twenties
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Celebrating a transcendental photography of nature that blurs art and science: Photographer Anand Varma on his lifelong wonder with the natural world
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How to stand up to the apocalypse: Peter Sarris on Justinian, the 6th century Byzantine ruler who confounded a narrative of decline
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Fruit of the Gods or of the Devil? Alexander Sammon on the sordid history of the avocado, the thirstiest fruit on the planet
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Why Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn't really like Nineteen-Eighty Four: Sandra Newman on Julia, Winston Smith and the totalitarianism of gender that George Orwell ignored in his masculine dystopia
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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How to Reawaken the American Dream: David Leonhardt on unions, constitutional reform, immigration and the need for a progressive populism
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Why Generative AI could make artists extinct: Karla Ortiz warns about the existential "theft" at the heart of the AI revolution
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Memoirs of a cranky old New York Gen X'er: Christian Lorentzen on the half-life of a literary critic in our digital age of cultural decay and disinformation
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What makes humans so special? John Parrington on how human brains, unlike those of all other species, can turn matter into meaning
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What the data tells us about the cancellation of the American mind: Greg Lukianoff on why today's cancel culture is as much of a threat to free speech as the McCarthyite Red Scare of the 1950s
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Why an elite establishment economist is calling bullsh*t on the promise of the American dream: Jeff Fuhrer reveals the existential crisis of economic inequality now threatening the United States
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Why Poland is still in therapy over its "complex" World War II history: Roger Moorhouse on the forgotten story of a Polish diplomatic rescue operation to save the lives of Polish Jews
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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How "responsible" was Benjamin Netanyahu for the events of October 7? Israel novelist Noa Yedlin on the worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people since the Holocaust
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Broken bodies, broken homes, broken families & broken work: Alissa Quart reveals life on the edge in the world's richest country
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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How to resurrect the World's Greatest Detective: Sophie Hannah on her latest Agatha Christie sanctioned murder mystery HERCULE POIROT'S SILENT NIGHT
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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In Defense of Place: Seth Kaplan on how to repair American society, one zip code at a time
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Should we celebrate or mourn technological abundance? Keith Teare weighs up the costs and benefits of abundant artificial intelligence
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Why Oliver Wendell Holmes' book "Common Law" is most uncommon: Peter Slen on the 1881 legal classic that has profoundly shaped America
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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What is it about scientists that makes many of them so consensual and collaborative? Lorraine Daston explains how scientists have learned to cooperate with each other
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Why the American Dream has turned into a nightmare for many Americans: Andrea Dobynes Wagner on life in the United States as a black woman with an invisible disability
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Listening Once Again to Prozac: Peter D. Kramer offers a thirty year history of antidepressants and the remaking of the American self
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Impact of Small Things: Best-selling writer and Hollywood actress Annabelle Gurwitch on her experience of taking in a homeless couple in Los Angeles
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Are handheld video games a valuable kind of art or are they a worthless technological curse? Jon Doyle celebrates the glory years of video gaming when handheld devices provided their users with a simultaneously social and intimate experience
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Didn't we learn anything from COVID? Joe Nocera on why American capitalism needs to be radically reformed if it is to successfully confront the next pandemic
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Burn Baby Burn: M.R. O'Connor on the life-giving force of fire to regenerate nature
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Ten Years that Didn't Change the World: Vincent Bevins on the global mass protests of 2010-2020 that failed to change anything
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Canceling of the American Mind: Rikki Schlott on why she believes cancel culture is an existential threat to the free speech of both conservatives and progressives
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The American Ant King who transformed our understanding of animal behavior: Richard Rhodes on E.O. Wilson and his scientific life in nature
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Being less anxious about today's epidemic of anxiety: David Rosmarin on why anxiety is both normal and healthy and how we can thrive with it
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The Big Fail or A Big Success? Bethany McLean on what the Covid pandemic reveals about strengths and weaknesses of American healthcare, innovation and capitalism.
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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It's a Horrible Situation..... I Wish I Could Sound More Cheerful: Former British Ambassador Alexander Hall Hall on Israel, Gaza and the New Global Disorder
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Care Economy as the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Premilla Nadasen explains why we need to bring care back to what she calls the "care" economy of healthcare and teaching
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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How to get to a regenerative future before we blow ourselves up: Trond Undheim on averting the end of the world by 2075
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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An obscure 1722 naval battle off the coast of West Africa which had a monumental impact on the history of America: Angela C. Sutton on the battle of Cape Lopez and the birth of chattel slavery as an American institution
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Placing African-Americans at the center of their own story: Dylan Penningroth excavates the hidden histories of Black civil rights in 19th and 20th century America
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Why cheap food isn't really cheap: Will Harris on the repellant nature of industrial farming and why the future of food should be local
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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What makes writing, speaking and computer programming similarly human activities: Michael Littman on why all humans, in our AI age, should learn a little programming
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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How to Take Liberties with History: Abby Smith Rumsey on what we should remember and what we should forget about the past
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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How to be Abe Lincoln: Jonathan Shapiro offers seven steps to finding a moral compass and living a worthy life
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Why OpenAI could be worth $5 trillion by 2028: Keith Teare explains how OpenAI might already be the most valuable company on the planet
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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The Man Who Could See Around Corners: Peter Slen on Frederick Douglass and his 1845 autobiography about his life os an American slave
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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America in the Dillon era: Richard Aldous on Douglas Dillon and mainstream Republicanism in the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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An American Gun for the age of Sandy Hook and Uvalde: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson on the history of the AR-15, an assault weapon that captures contemporary America's love affair with technology, freedom and guns
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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How to transform yourself from a good girl into a bad b***h: Lisa Carmen Wang's bad b***h business bible for taking charge of your body, boundaries and bank account
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Why Food Stamps Work: Christopher Bosso's political history - and defense - of SNAP
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Saving Bill Clinton's life and other tales from the operating theater: Craig R. Smith on his life as one of America's most celebrated heart surgeons
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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A New Deal to Save the Earth: John J. Berger outlines the three dimensions to solving the world's climate crisis
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The Emotional Life of Populism in Israel: Eva Illouz on Netanyahu, Hamas and what the left has lost by not embracing the fear, disgust, resentment and love that determine democratic politics
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The October weekend that changed the Middle East forever: Uri Kaufman compares the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 with the Simchat Torah war of October 2023
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Tripping into our brave new psychedelic world: Andy Mitchell on his odyssey into the new reality of psychedelics
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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The Blood Years, then and now: Elana K. Arnold on book banning, book burning and what we can learn from Second World War books about good and evil
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Disorder, Disorder, Disorder: Jason Pack and Alexandra Hall Hall order our disordered world
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Is peace there for the taking? Jason Pack on Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The All American B***h: Evelyn McDonnell on Joan Didion's artistic sensibility and moral clarity
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Why politics needs to be relegated to its proper place: Alexandra Hudson offers timeless principles on how to heal society and ourselves
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics, on women's journey to close the gender gap
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Myth of Progress: Erik J. Larson on Silicon Valley's failure to change anything of any significance since the Fifties
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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My Bath with Hitler: Kenneth Rendell on safeguarding history at a time when fakers are much smarter and more creative than their victims
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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The Human Tragedy and Political Shame of America's Mass Criminal Supervision System: Vincent Schiraldi on probation, parole and the illusion of safety and freedom in contemporary America
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Iron Man, Ant-Man and our relentless thirst for parasocial super heroes: Joana Robinson and Gavin Edwards on the reign of Marvel Studios
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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The Right Female Stuff: Loren Grush on the story of America's first six female astronauts
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Should environmentalists be utopian? Dickson Despommier imagines the perfect 21st century city
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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From Suicide Notes to Every Star That Falls: Michael Thomas Ford on 15 years that changed the world of teen mental health and sexual identity
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Artificial Intelligence or Bust: Keith Teare on why AI might be the most important development in tech since the invention of the internet
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Evil colonizers, brave explorers or clueless white men? Peter Slen on the geographical and literary exploits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The real McElroy: Isle McElroy on what it means to be a non-binary writer and how it might feel like to be born into the wrong body
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Taylor Swift or Lady Di of the early 20th Century: Shelley Fraser Mickle on Alice Roosevelt, the White House wild child
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence: Kian Vesteinsson on the crisis of freedom on the internet in 2023
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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All the American demons are there: Jake Tapper on how returning to the late 1970's can help us understand the America of the early 2020's
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Modern Britain and all that caper: Jonathan Coe on British chocolate, the Royal Family and its decision to marry the wrong Super Power
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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An Old Story Told Differently: Bethanne Patrick on 8 books reimagining the experience of first generation immigrants
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Against the Romance of Transformation: Leon Weiseltier on America's love affair with the promise of personal and social change
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Normalizing China: Gilles Guiheux on China's very ordinary history between 1949 and today
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Against Green Capitalism: Charles Derber on how big money fuels extinction and what we can do about it
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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No, Men aren't Angels: Peter Slen on why the Federalist Papers is one of the ten books that has most shaped America
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Dumb devices, dumb bureaucrats and dumb entrepreneurs: Keith Teare on FTC chair Lina Khan, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and why the iPhone is on the brink of becoming radically more intelligent
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Why Disorder may be the New Order: Jason Pack on how the global system itself has gone rogue and no longer conforms with the textbooks
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Why Artificial Intelligence will make us smarter: W. Russell Neuman presents AI as a progressive moment in human evolution
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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An Afterword to Words Themselves? Bethanne Patrick on six speculative novels which imagine a world saturated by AI
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Should we punish innovation? Keith Teare on public and private investment markets, breaking up Google and paying to use X
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The 10 books that have most shaped America: Peter Slen on Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The White Man's version of Democracy in America? Brook Manville on the "Civic Bargain" that defines the history of democracy in western civilization
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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How to think faster and talk smarter: Matt Abrahams on speaking successfully when you're put on the spot
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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"I want you to be more selfish": Millennial therapist Sara Kuburic on how to discover your true self and change your life
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The case against forgiveness: Myisha Cherry questions a forgiving God, Christian forgiveness and happy Hollywood moral endings
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Buried History of Jerusalem: Andrew Lawler digs up the political archeology of the world's most contested city
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Untangling the twin three-way relationships shaping the contemporary Middle East: Ilan Eyatar on Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Nothing will ever be the same again: Hugh Eakin remembers the year when the United States bumped into Pablo Picasso and modern art arrived in America
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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How to ensure the survival of democracy: Josiah Ober on ancient Greece and Rome as models of self government by their citizens
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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There's No Them There, Only Us: Kerri Maher on the Jane Collective in the early 1970s and how to write fiction about an issue as divisive as abortion
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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On Power, Patriarchy and Privilege: Kemi Nekvapil offers a woman's guide to living and leading without apology
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Is the American Constitution undermining American Democracy? Daniel Ziblatt on how constitutional reform can strengthen democracy in America
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Blood in the Machine: Brian Merchant on what we can learn from the 19th century Luddites in our digital age of gig work and generative AI
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Notes from the invisible underground: Kat Calvin on the 26 million American adults who have no government ID and, thus, in the eyes of the government, don't really exist
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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How the quest for respect can heal our divided world: Michele Lamont on rebuilding dignity in our age of anxiety , inequality and isolation
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Why Justice is Coming to America: Cenk Uygur predicts that progressives are going to take over the country and how we are all going to love it
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Confronting Amazon, Google and his own powerful family: John Sargent on his adventures and misadventures as CEO of one of the world's largest publishing companies
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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What's Your Lego? Bent Flyvbjerg on how to get big things done
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Seeing through all the shtick: of parenting Gary John Bishop on how to grow up to become the parent your kids deserve
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Is Web3 technology - Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs et al - just the latest Silicon Valley hype? Alex Tapscott separates the signal from the noise on the internet's next economic and cultural frontier
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Tyranny of an Ethnocratic Minority: Steven Levitsky on what an increasingly broken American political system has to learn from the democracies of Brazil and Argentina
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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When the stink became overwhelming: Corban Addison tells the true story of when large-scale farming went on trial in North Carolina
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Your Face Belongs to Us: Kashmir Hill on a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Eight novels to take to a desert island this Fall: Bethanne Patrick on new fiction about Haiti, Jamestown, 1984, Malaysia and women on the margins of the Vietnam war
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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On the Awesomeness of Globalization: Keith Teare explains why the next chapter of globalized technology will undermine the economic and political power of the nation-state
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The Economic and Moral Case for Good Jobs: Zeynep Ton on why companies need to bring dignity, pay and meaning to everyone's work
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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How to stand up to a dictator: Maria Ressa on courage, honesty, perseverance and why must all fight for our future
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The shocking saga of big media malfeasance rivaling Succession for its sex, lies and betrayals: Rachel Abrams on the Redstone dynastic struggle, former CBS executive Les Moonves and their significance to the Me Too movement
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Why AI threatens not just writing, creativity and thinking, but also democracy: Naomi S. Baron on how new tools like Chat GPT are stopping us knowing who we really are as individuals
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The Long Life of a Radical Gerontologist: Ken Dychtwald on how to age with purpose
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer: Ken Costa explains why the handover of wealth from Boomers to Gen Z must revolutionize capitalism
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Why digital transformation isn't about technology: David Rogers on how to rebuild organizations in our age of continuous change
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The most brutal and gruesome siege in human history? Prit Buttar on the siege of Leningrad 1941-42
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Watch out for those Jewish space lasers: Mike Rothschild on the Rothschilds and 200 years of anti-semitic conspiracy theories
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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How to direct the power of digital technology into economic and political progress: Simon Johnson on what we can learn from our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity to make our age of Generative AI more equitable
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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On the science of failing well: Amy Edmondson explains why we need to take smart risks which will result in more, rather than fewer, failures
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Don't Look Away: Alexander Batthyany on terminal lucidity, the "soul" and our final journey when we cross over the border from life to death
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Extremely Socially Online: Taylor Lorenz on the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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How to break free of "equality feminism": Marcie Bianco on the lie of equality and the feminist fight for freedom
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Taming the Street then and now: Diana Henriques on the New Deal, FDR's fight to regulate American capitalism and its relevance in Joe Biden's America today
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Was Richard Nixon really a Southern Californian paragon of cheerfulness , hard work and decency? Paul Carter's defense of the only US President born and raised in California
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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The Dirty Secrets of our Material World: Ed Conway on the six physical commodities underpinning the global extractive economy
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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An Un-Whitewashed Story of America: Michael Harriot on AF History, Black Twitter and how he "discovered" America at 8.00 pm on November 4, 1980
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Eight great non-fiction reads for the Fall: LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick on new books about video-gaming writers, Roman emperors, Rastafarian fathers, Jerusalem murders, American guns and the genealogy of the female body
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Why money now is the most valuable commodity in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare explains how cash has become king for both tech investors and entrepreneurs
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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When fictional characters turn out to be more authentic than real people: Lang Leav on anti Asian racism in Australia and her love of the early internet as a place where she could escape how she looks
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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How Bill Clinton betrayed progressive ideas and capitulated to the right: Nelson Lichtenstein on the failure of the Clinton presidency and the transformation of American capitalism
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Five Elemental Ways of Building a Sustainable Future: Stephen Porder on how five core elements changed earth's past and will shape our future
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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If you want to understand America, you have to understand basketball: Rich Cohen on the 1987-1988 NBA's "greatest season"
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Imagine an AI that customizes a musical soundtrack of our lives: Niclas Molinder on the opportunities and threats that AI offers the creative community
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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AI as our Guttenberg moment: Moritz Schularick, the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, on the economic significance of today's AI revolution
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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AI as our Oppenheimer moment: Benedikt Franke, CEO of the Munich Security Conference, on the geo-political significance of today's AI revolution
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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One year that changed the world: Ludwig Ensthaler on the short but revolutionary history of Generative AI
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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There will be no stock market on a dead planet: Sandrine Dixson-Decleve on how to transform extractive capitalism into a regenerative model of equitable economic progress
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Why truthful stories about nature should have neither beginnings nor endings: Martin Puchner on telling circular environmental stories
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Why there is hope in the soil: Jan-Gisbert Schultze on the transformational promise of regenerative agriculture
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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What, exactly, is circular economics? Martjin Lopes Cardozo on the current state of the circular economy
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The Age of the Sustainable City: Ian Goldin on how to make the 21st century city the heart of a new circular economy
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Trust and the Tokenization of Value: Rachel O'Dwyer on the future of money in our age of the digital platform
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Containing and Controlling AI: Mustafa Suleyman on how to strengthen the nation-state in the coming wave of radical technological disruption
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley's Destruction of Reality: Jonathan Taplin on how 4 tech billionaires are selling us a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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I Must Resist: Michael G. Long celebrates the political and personal bravery of Bayard Ruskin on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Why extraterrestrial life doesn't give a damn about us: Avi Loeb on the search for interstellar species and our future in the stars
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Saving the Planet Five Times Faster: Simon Sharpe rethinks the science, economics and diplomacy of climate change
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Exposing Beijing's Rotten Rules: Bethany Allen on how an authoritarian China is weaponizing its economy to confront the world
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Eighteen Days in October: Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War and the how it created the modern Middle East
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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SPACs, Scams and Hit Jobs: Keith Teare defends former SPAC king Chamath Palihapitiya from "hit job" accusations of scamming small investors
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Nine Noteworthy Novels: Bethanne Patrick on fast, furious and fun reads for the dying days of summer
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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TECHNOSLEEP: Sleep sociologist Katherine Conveney on the technological past, present and future of sleep
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Mr and Mrs Orwell's Invisible Lives: Anna Funder shines a light on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, George Orwell's homosexuality, and patriarchy as doublethink
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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How billionaires have colonized the New York City skyline: Katherine Clarke on the race to build the world's most exclusive skyscrapers
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Say Everything Everywhere: Scott Rosenberg remembers the digital origins of bulletin boards, blogging and the social media revolution
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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This Is Wildfire: Nick Mott on how to protect ourselves, our homes and our communities in the age of heat
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Why Twitter and Facebook are like nuclear weapons: Umut Ozkirimli traces his personal history of social media from the 2013 Gezi Park uprising to his own cancellation in 2020
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Why the Revolution Won't Be Retweeted: Ece Temelkuran on social media's failure to change the world
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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The New Heart of Darkness: Siddharth Kara on how the (rechargable) blood of the Congo powers our lives
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Playing Chess against Nature: Rafael Yuste explains how today's advances in neuroscience will eventually lead to a new Renaissance in understanding who exactly we are as a species
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Sex, Faith and Murder in an Early 19th Century New England Mill Town: Bruce Dorsey on the first true crime story that captivated America
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Why today's "Polycrisis" is akin to living in a hospice: Anya Kamenetz untangles the environmental, psychological, epidemiological, economic and political crises of our age
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Why Big Tech threatens our civil rights, economy and democracy: Silicon Valley insider Tom Kemp warns about the existential dangers of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Can there be liberty in the Greater Middle East without democracy? Robert D. Kaplan on why Singapore offers a palatable political model for countries lying between the Mediterranean and China
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Remembering the Digital Future: Ethan Zuckerman on the history of blogging, the Arab Spring and why there will never be another Twitter
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Silicon Valley Playbook for Existential Success: Behnam Tabrizi on why some companies succeed and others fail in the perpetual struggle to survive in today's innovative economy
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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On the Disinformation of Trump, RFK Jr and Putin: Lee McIntyre explains how we can fight for truth and protect democracy
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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What, exactly, is female beauty? Celeste Marcus on Bardot and Barbie as rival and perhaps incompatible types of beautiful women
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Liberal Saint or Monty Pythonesque Sinner? D.J. Taylor uncovers a "New Life" for George Orwell that resurrects the iconic 20th century writer for a 21st century audience
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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8 inspiring non-fiction reads for the summer: Bethanne Patrick on books about New York City sex cults, the oceanic underworld, Ghanian confidence tricksters and American women, fathers and sons
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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What history teaches us about the future of venture capitalism: Keith Teare on how being a good investor requires us to overcome our emotions
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Why Podcasters should NEVER read advertisements on their own shows: Jemima Kelly on the gross inauthenticity of podcasts and most other forms of "social" media
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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So how much would you pay for the Mona Lisa? Arturo Cifuentes explains the cost of art and why valuing paintings is like evaluating the price of real-estate
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Not-So-Secret World of Black Twitter: Deesha Philyaw on social media, the influencer generation and the loneliness of online existence
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Getting Beyond the Happy Talk of Liberal Orthodoxy: Susan MacKenty Brady explains how men and women can begin talking fearlessly to one another again
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Quinn Eastman on Hypersomnia and the science of sleepiness
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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How Trust Works: Peter Kim on the science of how relationships are built, broken, and repaired
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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All of a sudden, there was all this freedom: David Winer on the origins of blogging, the self-publishing technology that has profoundly shaped the first quarter of the 21st century
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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If Life isn't a Movie, then How Should We Make Movies about Life? Olivia Rutigliano on Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 controversial film, "Le Mepris" (Contempt)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The Terrifyingly Exciting Promise of Nuclear Fusion: Matthew Moynihan on radically disruptive technology that, he promises, can conquer climate change and take us to Mars in a month
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Future of Money, Jobs, Climate and Failure: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' best 15 business books from 2023
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Dry Powder for a Dying Digital Economy? Keith Teare on the deepening venture capital crisis, how the innovators dilemma holds back Big Tech innovation, and why Substack is trying to reinvent the online media ecosystem
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Did MTV Kill American Democracy? Kathryn Cramer Brownell on cable television and the fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Literary Insurrections and Memetic Apocalypses : Rion Amilcar Scott on the rise and (perhaps) fall of Black Twitter
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Scottish Coal-Miner's Daughter Who Took on the Bulgarian Cryptoqueen: Jennifer McAdam on her battle to take down Ruja Ignatova and her $27 Billion OneCoin Scam
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Seven Best Novels of the Summer: Bethanne Patrick on the literature of love, nostalgia, young call girls and valiant women
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Subversive Story of the B-52s: Scott Creney on one of the most iconic bands in American popular musical history
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Feeding the AI Beast: Michael Wooldridge on the vast quantities of online data that have trained ChatGPT to mimic human language
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Why America is Facing its greatest "Moral Moment "since the Civil War: Peter Wehner on the accountability of the Republican Party for Trump
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Why We Need to Reoccupy Reality: Douglas Rushkoff on the Untethering of America between 2013 and 2023
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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How something really strange began to happen on social media in 2016
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Bonfire of the Unicorns: Keith Teare on the near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown on the broader innovation economy
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Get Out of My Way
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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In Defense of the Abraham Accords
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Remembering a first Tweet with the same bewitching nostalgia as a first kiss
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could be repeated in 2024
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why Greta Gerwig's BARBIE is Cynical and Vapid
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why So Many Smart People Are Turning Against Democracy
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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If We Can Be Taught How to Write, Then Why Not Also Be Educated in How to Love?
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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How to go from a small handful of book sales to top of the bestseller list via a 16 second Tiktok
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect with Nature
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Underworld
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Hot Reads for the Heatwave
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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The New York Street that Changed American Art Forever
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of Ira Hayes
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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In Praise of Valiant American Women
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Can the Men Be Saved?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or Autobiography
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Why Conservatives Should Fear & Loathe AI
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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How To Be a Wise Teacher
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Imaging the Animal World as Nature's Great Maintenance Crew
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Why the "very very excellent" OPPENHEIMER is a complicated film for our complex times
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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The Hidden History of American Democracy
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Episode 1610: Our Oppenheimer Moment
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Episode 1609: Why America Dominates the World
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Episode 1608: The Fourth Turning is Here
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Episode 1607: What Happens When Both Life and the Planet is Programmable?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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EPISODE 1606: On the "Moral Ambiguity" Surrounding the American Decision to Drop Two Nuclear Bombs on Japan
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 1605: Why the Habsburg Empire is as much a guide to our 21st Century Future as our 19th Century Past
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 1603: Can Diplomacy Save American Democracy?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 1603: Social Media For Dummies
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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EPISODE 1602: How to Learn to Look So that We Become the World Itself
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1601: Why Americans Still Can't Talk to Each Other About Politics
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1600: What a Cock Up!
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1599: Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1598: Goodbye, Eastern Europe
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1597: Into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1596: How the Internet Has Become an Outrage Machine
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1595: Why AI is Now the Analytical Brain AND the Creative Heart of our Economy
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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EPISODE 1594: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1593: Why America's Blood-Sucking Super Rich Want to Live Forever
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Episode 1592: Risking Everything in Pursuit of Truth and Beauty
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Episode 1591: Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Episode 1590: Talking to the Mafia about Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Jimmy Hoffa
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Episode 1589: Why Lina Khan and Gary Gensler Should Be Fired
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 1588: A Real-Life Tragicomedy about our Destruction of the Earth
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 1587: What America's current drug binge reveals about the post neoliberal 2020s
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 1586: Why the Renaissance Still Haunts Us
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Walt Zuckerberg: If you like Disneyland, then you're gonna love Threads
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Episode 1584: Learning from the Deepest Oceans about How Life Begun
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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From Radical to Unifier to Martyr: C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, the Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Episode 1582: A Terribly Serious History of Philosophy at Oxford
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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KEEN ON Episode 1581: When a Czechoslovakian David Twice Beat the Soviet Goliath
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Episode 1580: The Albert Einstein Effect
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Episode 1579: Crime as a Catalyst for Social Change
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The rise of Las Narcas - the drug ladies of Latin America
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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The Warnings of a Holocaust Scholar about Today's World of the Big Lie
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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How to Tell the American Story
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Phew! When AI ate the internet
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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A Chilling Plot to Grab the World's Food and Water Resources
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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How to Get Beyond the Shame of Sexual Violence
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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America's First Great Naturalist
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Uncomfortable Truths Our Dogs Would Tell Us If They Could Talk
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Why Novels Must Be More Believable than Non-Fiction Books
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Remembering Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls and Stevie Wonder
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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From Pizza and Meze to Ramen and Borscht: Unscrambling the Politics of National Dishes
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Is most of rural America really plotting to destroy democracy?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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On the Importance of Being Batshit Crazy
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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American Whitelash: Wesley Lowery on the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The American Dream of a "Tossed Salad": Luma Mufleh on reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Arab-turned-American refugee
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The 20th Century Corporation: Richard Langlois on the cultural and economic history of the modern American business enterprise
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Pricing the Priceless: Paula DiPerna on how to quantify the planet and solve the climate crisis
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Why 80% Isn't Good Enough: Matt Higgins imagines how the publishing industry and writers will be impacted by the coming AI storm
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Middle Eastern Maze: Itamar Rabinovich on Israel, the Palestinians and an inglorious seventy-five year history of mostly failed peace initiatives
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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A Teacher's Journey: Adam Bessie's graphically dystopian take on education in the digital age of COVID and AI
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Fireworks Every Night: Beth Raymer on her delightfully delusional father, male homelessness and why Florida "just is America"
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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The End of the Game: Roger Ballen on the existential ecological psychodrama of the destruction of African wildlife
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Becoming Fully Me: Bethanne Patrick about how she escaped her double depression and wrote a memoir about it
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World: Christian Cooper on birding, the flight of freedom and how we must positively bend the arc of justice
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Why Big Tech is Getting Even Bigger: Keith Teare on how the biggest tech companies now control our economic and political fates
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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From Queer to Gay to Queer: James Kirchick on why he believes the theory of "queerness" is a "parasite" on the gay rights movement
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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How to Get Rid of Rich White Men: Garrett Neiman on uprooting the old boy's club in order to transform America
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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A Queer American Life: R.K. Russell on being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Winner Sells All: Jason Del Rey on the quarter century Amazon vs Walmart war for our wallets, bodies and souls
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Animal Spirits: Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of vitality from Walt Whitman and William James to Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Peter Cave on the scholars, dreamers and sages who can teach us how to live
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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France and Marc Chagall in World War Two: Stephen Kiernan on the redemptive power of art to reconstruct a broken nation
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Purple Presidency 2024: C. Owen Paepke on how voters can reclaim the White House for "bipartisan" governance
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did: Geloy Concepcion on his confessional photographic journal on Instagram
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Datapreneurs: Bob Muglia on why we should trust the promise of AI and its creators to build a better human future
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Against Nostalgia: Mark Lilla on why progressives should reject nostalgia in thinking about both the past and future
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss why Keith was wrong in last week's show about Apple's new Vision Pro and how this revolutionary device might once again change everything
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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A Radical Amerikan Family: Santi Elijah Holley on the Shakurs - from the Black Panthers to Tupac
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Good Enough Job: Simone Stolzoff on how to reclaim our life from work
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Three Ages of Water: Peter Gleick on the prehistoric past, imperiled present and hopeful future of water
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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My Hijacking: Martha Hodes on her memoir of forgetting
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Imagine a City: Mark Vanhoenacker writes a love letter from the sky to the world's greatest cities
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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As Rich as a Digital Croesus: Trevor Traina imagines a super app in which we can store all our Web3 data
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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In Defense of Big Girls: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan asks whether the American Republic was founded on anti-fat people principles
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Overlooked Americans: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on the resilience of rural America and it means for the future of the country
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Donna Cleanwell Leaves Home: Ana Castillo on her "truth seeking" fictional characters and her amusement at being considered the "grande dame of Chicana literature"
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Conversations with Your Future Self: Hal Hershfield on how to escape the tyranny of the present and make tomorrow better today
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Chile Project: Sebastian Edwards on the story of the Chicago Boys and the downfall of neoliberalism
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Siberian Job: John Kleinheinz on how he got rich in post-communist Russia and what that experience taught him about the value of free markets and democracy
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Crime and Punishment for the Jews: Paul Goldberg on "The Dissident", his new Cold War mystery about a group of refuseniks in Moscow in 1976
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Having Pride in Pride: Abdi Nazemian on why he's happy being thought of as a queer writer
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Here Begins the Global Age: Meredith Small explains how a 15th century Venetian monk drew a map of the world and foresaw the future
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The Best of New York City Distilled into a Neighborhood Bar: Jon Michaud on the life and death of Coogan's, one of New York's most beloved saloons
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Against the Fetishization of Identity: Umut Ozkirimli offers a leftist alternative to what he sees as the intolerance of "woke" politics
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Body Neutrality: Jessi Kneeland on the psychology and spirituality of escaping body self-hatred
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Search for Justice in America: Jared Fishman on the cold-blooded murder of Henry Glover by the New Orleans Police Department after Hurricane Katrina
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Survivor's Story of a Gay Activist: Paul Burston on how we can all be heroes, just for one day
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe: Kate Strasdin on fashion, fabric and femininity in 19th century England
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Most American of Americans: How African-American slaves embraced the new Republic's symbols of freedom in their fight for freedom
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Twisted Games We Play: Siena Sterling on twisted plots, twisted people and twisted writers like Highsmith and Dostoievski
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Italian Squad: Paul Moses on the true story of the immigrant cops who fought the rise of the Mafia
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Palestine Laboratory: Antony Loewenstein explains how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Heartbeat of the Wild: David Quammen's conservationist manifesto from landscapes of wonder, peril and hope
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? Jordan Crandall on the appropriate literature for our new age of superintelligence
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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That Was The Week in Tech: Keith Teare predicts a failed Apple virtual reality headset but is more bullish on Twitter's reinvention as X
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Message on an Envelope: Stephen Games rethinks the publishing industry by reimagining books as postcards
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The 7 Deadly Myths: Alex Ryvchin on antisemitism from the time of Christ to Kanye West and the Ashburton Army
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The Wounded World: Chad Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Anything but Halycon: Elliot Ackerman imagines an America of President Al Gore in which there is technology that can resurrect dead people
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Our Kids Will Ask Us What We Did: Skye Perryman explains why she is fighting to save American democracy
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Like the Appearance of Horses: Andrew Krivak on war, language, memory and why ChatGPT will never understand beauty
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The World as a Big Book Club: David Blake explains the resiliency of the physical book and why he is cautiously optimistic about the impact of AI on both publishing and storytelling
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Carry Strong: Stephanie Kramer offers an empowered approach to navigating pregnancy and work
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Talking Turkey: Soli Özel makes sense of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's return to political power
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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How to Scale Trust: David Samson on making tribes and tribalism work in the 21st century
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May 31, 2023 |
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Accelerated Minds: Neil Seeman unlocks the often destructive impulses that drive the entrepreneurial brain
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May 31, 2023 |
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A Lost Son in Russia: Brett Forrest on the tragic human collateral loss of the FBI's secret wars
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May 30, 2023 |
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On Our Worst Behavior: Elise Loehnen explains why women should be sinful
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May 30, 2023 |
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Living Beneath the Surface: Hugh Howey imagines the actual world as a science fictional version of reality
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May 30, 2023 |
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: Ashlee Vance on the historical precedents, environmental risks and business opportunities of colonizing space
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May 18, 2023 |
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Thomas Jefferson as America's Founding Plagiarist: David Fleming explains how Jefferson stole the words of the Declaration of Independence from Irish and Scottish migrants to North Carolina
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Shadow Docket: Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is using stealth rulings to undermine the American Republic
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May 15, 2023 |
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The Cult of the A*****e: Jeremy Sherman's psycho-proctological analysis of why there are so many a******s around these days
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May 14, 2023 |
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Celebrating Israeli Independence Day: Rick Richman on why he believes "Americanism" and "Zionism" are the most successful "isms" of the 20th century
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May 14, 2023 |
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How to Fix Democracy: Maciej Kisilowski on reconciling progressives and conservatives in Turkey, Poland and the United States
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May 14, 2023 |
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Why Today's Environmental Problems Aren't Existential: Steven Cohen's pragmatic approach to environmentally sustainable growth
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May 13, 2023 |
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Built to Move: Juliet and Kelly Starrett on the most essential habits to help us move freely and live fully
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May 13, 2023 |
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Why Hitchcock's "Vertigo" Still Matters: Ty Burr celebrates the 65th Birthday of this warped, phallic masterpiece about desire & impotence
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May 12, 2023 |
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Telling the Same Story Differently: Terry McDonell on writing about his mother, Irma
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May 12, 2023 |
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Why Facebook Matters :David Kirkpatrick remembers his first meeting with Mark Zuckerberg in 2006 and how social media has changed all of our lives since
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May 11, 2023 |
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Resurrection of the Author: Stephen Marche explains why Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT will make creators more valuable than ever
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Left and the Nation-State: Michael Walzer on what progressives today can learn from liberal nationalists like Thomas Jefferson and Guiseppe Mazzini
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Phoenix Economy: Felix Salmon on work, life and the price of lobster rolls in the new not normal
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Cult of Celebrity: Landon Jones on how America has devolved into a culture of fans and followers
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May 09, 2023 |
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Why Night Vision is the Right Vision: Mariana Alessandri on how the natural human condition might might be to live in darkness, anger and pain
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May 09, 2023 |
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Decision Sprint: Atif Rafiq on whether innovation is an art or a science
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May 08, 2023 |
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A Scientific Theory of Complexity: Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being
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May 08, 2023 |
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:Why Smart Machines Know Us So Well: John Borthwick on how today's AI revolution is being built upon social media data
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May 07, 2023 |
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Can the GOP Win the Independent Vote? Carl Delfeld on how Republicans existential challenge of reaching non-aligned voters
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May 06, 2023 |
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We Plan, God Laughs: Emma Nadler on how good and bad luck, like laughter and tears, are often inseparably connected
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May 06, 2023 |
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That Was The Week in Tech: Keith Teare explains why all this week's King Canute style talk about regulating AI is equally absurd and impractical
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May 05, 2023 |
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Why Asian Start-ups Outside China Matter: Bernard Moon on innovation in South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Traffic Drug: Ben Smith on the Internet's fatal addiction to viral traffic
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May 05, 2023 |
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Andrew Tate, Mr Beast, KSI and a Viral Flood of Toxic Masculinity: Henry Mance on what it means to be a boy online in 2023
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May 05, 2023 |
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Remembering the Beginnings of our Social Media Age: Julia Angwin on her earliest memories of the blogging "revolution"
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May 04, 2023 |
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Uncovering the Sad Truth about Wonder Boy: Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans on Tony Hsieh and Silicon Valley's happiness myth
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May 04, 2023 |
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Turning the Traditional Super-Hero Narrative Upside Down: Leah Johnson on why it's more important for kids to save themselves than to save the world
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May 04, 2023 |
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Why Social Media Still Matters: Jeff Jarvis on the origins of blogging , what went wrong at Twitter and Facebook, and how he still believes in the social potential of the Internet
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May 04, 2023 |
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The 1963 Birmingham Campaign: Paul Kix on the ten weeks that changed America
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May 04, 2023 |
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Is American Capitalism Irredeemably Rotten? Brendan Ballou on Private Equity's Plan to Pillage and Plunder the United States
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May 03, 2023 |
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HELL TO PAY: Michael Lind explains how the suppression of wages and unions is destroying America
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May 03, 2023 |
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From Solitaire to Heartstopper: Alice Oseman on asexuality, authentic story telling and book banning
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May 03, 2023 |
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The First Lady of World War II: Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable heroism during the War
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Miracle That the United States Needs Right Now: John Blake's personal story on how to get beyond race and racism in America today
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May 02, 2023 |
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Telling Our Stories Our Way: Angeline Boulley on the need to get beyond "trauma "in Native American literature
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Promise of Second Life: Amber Atherton on the rise (and fall) of virtual communities
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May 02, 2023 |
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Excellent Advice for Living (and Dying): Kevin Kelly on how to become improbable versions of ourselves and why we should be intimate with our ancestors
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Art of Fictionalizing Non-Fiction: Katie Hafner on Kafka, Silicon Valley and the truish story behind her novel "The Boys"
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May 01, 2023 |
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Trump Was a Joke: Sophia McClennen on how satire makes sense of a President who didn't
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Free and Equal: Daniel Chandler on what a fair society should look like
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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VC shrinkage, the end of screens, and sperm injected robots: Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech for April 29, 2023
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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On Fathers and Sons: Charles Foran explains what his memories of his father teach us about himself and us
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Bridging Istanbul with Kansas City: Kenan Orhan on the surprising links between the American heartland and the Turkish metropolis
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic: Simon Winchester about the magical way in which knowledge is now transmitted
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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The Poetry of End Times:" Rishi Dastidar offers a post-apocalyptic jig and reel to dance around our climate crisis
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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If You Don't Adapt, You Fail: Peter Frankopan on what we can learn from history about today's environmental crisis
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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From Saddam to the Iraqi heavy metal scene: Faisal Saeed Al Mutar on resisting Al Qaeda, reading John Stuart Mill and eating a good kebab
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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An Uneducated Memoir: Christopher Zara on flunking out, falling apart and finding his worth in spite of not being "educated"
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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No, We Are Not Alone: Daniel Siegel explains how we must expand our idea of the "self" to include other people, other species and the earth itself
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Halloween Comes Early to Silicon Valley This Year: The death of magazines, DVDs & Buzzfeed News as well as the near-death of Twitter
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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I Kick and I Fly: Ruchira Gupta on empowering girls to fight against child prostitution and sex trafficking
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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On God, Goodness & the Value of Persistence: Sam Adeyemi on why evangelicals should be encouraging their followers to think like "leaders"
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The World and All That It Holds: Aleksandar Hemon on Sarajevo, Jerusalem and the political significance of "macaronic" language
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Seeing Through the Smoke: Peter Grinspoon, MD, untangles the truth about marijuana
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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What's Love Got To Do With It? Genevieve Wheeler on witty banter, trashing talking and true romance in our social media age
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Why nobody is taking any liberties at Liberties: Celeste Marcus on publishing an uncompromisingly high-quality literary quarterly in the age of Substack & TikTok
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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When the Medium Became the Message: Julia Angwin on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and the origins of our age of advertising driven surveillance capitalism
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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American Madness: Jonathan Rosen's tragic story about friendship, insanity and murder
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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The South Pacific, Then and Now: Tanis Rideout asks whether we should apologize for the sins of our colonizing ancestors
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Soft Power 2.0: Daniel F. Runde on how America can reclaim global leadership in the 2020s
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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What Do White Women Want? Kimberlee Yolanda Williams on what it's like to rock the white woman's cradle
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Is Antisemitism on the Rise? Philip Slayton discusses an ancient hatred in our age of identity politics
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Those British Coronations: Jennifer Robson compares the crowning of Elizabeth II in 1953 with Charles III in 2023
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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On Children's Superpowers: Jarrett Krosoczka explains how art can enable kids to escape the unfortunate circumstances of their lives
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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That Was The Week for 4/14/23: Keith Teare on Substack vs Twitter, Apple banking, and Betaworks' AI Camp
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The Anxious Achiever: Morra Aarons-Mele on how to transform your biggest fears into your leadership superpower
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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How to Construct a Nervous System: Margo Jefferson on Ella Fitzergerald, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of her Life through Memoir Writing
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Mediocre Monk: Grant Lindsley on what he learnt in his stumbling search for wisdom in a Thai forest monastery
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Butcher on the Block; Matt Moore talks meat, butcher shops and where to find the best Lebanese food in America
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The Point of No Return for American Democracy? Thomas Byrne Edsall on the Republican party's descent into "minority authoritarianism"
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Nesting After Divorce: Beth Behrendt on how to co-parent in the family home after the marriage ends
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Flying Green: Christopher de Bellaigue identifies the lies and the promise of an environmentally responsible airline industry
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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How to Innovate: Sheena Iyengar on how, in our Age of Big Problems, we must learn to Think Bigger
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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On Mental Illness and the Mist of Consciousness: William Brewer explains how Psychedelic Therapy Saved His Life
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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On Roads Not Taken: Novelist Juliette Fay explains why regret is such fertile territory for fiction writers
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Disrupting the Traditional Art World: Evrim Oralkan on how Collecteurs.com is transforming privately owned creative work into "public" digital art
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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A Tragic Grand Delusion: Steven Simon on the Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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That Was the Week in Tech: Inspired by his wife, Gene, Keith Teare asks whether the market has hit the bottom
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Nine Black Robes: Joan Biskupic on the historic significance of the Supreme Court's drive to the right
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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An Impossible Choice: Anjan Sundaram on the devastating personal costs of being a war correspondent in Africa
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Painful Joy of Remembering the Lives of Two Holocaust Survivors: Max J. Friedman on why he chose to write a memoir about his Holocaust surviving parents
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Why We Should Blame Leaders, not Citizens, for Today's Crisis of Democracy: Larry Bartels on how democracy is eroding from the top
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Start-Up That Defines the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley: Jimmy Soni on the story of PayPal and its remarkable alumni who have shaped the 21st century
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Teen Mental Health Crisis: Hannah Murphy asks whether teens are paying with their sanity for their "free" social media
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Complicate the Narrative: Rajiv Vinnokota on how to transform Americans into better citizens
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Getting Kids to Hear the Trees: Brian Selznick on how to make a hopeful children's book about our environmental crisis
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Why Philosophy Matters: Diana Janney on the philosophical foundations of her fiction
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Getting Out of Saigon: Ralph White explains how he - as a 27-year old American banker - saved 113 South Vietnamese civilians
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Age of Scientific Wellness: Nathan Price on why the future of medicine will be personalized, predictive, data-rich, and in all of our hands
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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How to Laugh in the Face of our Environmental Apocalypse: Aaron Sachs explain why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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George VI and Elizabeth: Sally Bedell Smith on the 20th century royal marriage that saved the British monarchy
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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I Can't Save You: Anthony Chin-Quee on how giving up his successful career in medicine "saved" him
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Why We Need To Unwire from Big Tech: Gaia Bernstein on how to gain control over addictive digital technologies
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Don't Be King Canute: Keith Teare's Open Letter against pausing generative AI
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: Timothy Phillips on his 3,000 mile journey through the end and afterlife of the Cold War
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The Problem to End All Problems: Michael Scott-Baumann on the tragically parallel histories of Israel and Palestine
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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A Memoir about Hardship and Tragedy: Nicole Chung personal story of class, anger and grief in an increasingly unequal America
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The Last Catastrophe: Allegra Hyde offers an existential pitch for saving the planet
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Is the Web3 Dead? Edward Lee on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the seductive promise of creators taking control of their digital work
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Why the Ideal of the "Self" is a Social Construction: Brian Lowery on the myth of rugged individualism and what this should mean for the America of the 2020s
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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How to Save Democracy? Eli Merritt offers advice and inspiration from 95 (mostly) democratic world leaders on how to save our democracy from demagogue like Donald Trump
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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An Archeology of the Soviet Century: Karl Schlogel offers an encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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How To Fix Democracy: Samuel Issacharoff searches for glimmers of hope to strengthen democracies around the world
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Retelling the stories of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Stephanie Marie Thornton imagines the lost words between the iconic 18th century feminist and her equally visionary 19th century daughter
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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American Humility and Hubris in Kabul: Jeffrey E. Stern on a many layered story of brotherhood and terror in the Afghanistan war
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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A Gutenberg Moment in the History of Medicine: Dr Robert Pearl offers 5 ways that generative AI is about to revolutionize healthcare
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Digital McCarthyism: Keith Teare on the chilling anti=Chinese and anti-Communist hysteria in Washington DC against TikTok
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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How to Incentivize People to Change their Behavior: Uri Gneezy reveals how incentives really work
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Power of Hope: Carol Graham on how the science of well-being an save us from despair
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Ancient Stories about the Future: Sabrina Orah Mark on telling fairy tales designed to wake us up
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Trump as the Road Runner: Kevin O'Brien, former Assistant US Attorney to the DOJ, on hush money, Stormy Daniels and the latest farcical chapter of the Donald Trump Show
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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How Data Happens: Chris Wiggins on a history of data from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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When All Else Failed: Dana Sachs on the volunteers at the heart of the worst human displacement crisis in Europe since WW2
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Our Brains on Art and Music: Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on how the arts improve both individual and communal health
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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The New American Abnormal: Kerry Howley questions the seduction of a singular "truth" in the "Deep State" America of violent rumor, paranoia and perpetual surveillance
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Who Doesn't Want to Reinvent Themselves? Joanne Lipman reveals the five laws of reinventing our lives and work
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Why Water Matters: Natalie Koch untangles the weirdly connected environmental fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Are You Drowning in Work? Nick Sonnenberg on how to reduce clutter and enable productivity
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Do Women Make Better Murderers Than Men? Ren DeStefano on female serial killers and why she suspects everyone might have a murder in them
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Great Kingdoms of Africa: John Parker Liberates African history from the colonial narrative of oppression, suffering and powerlessness
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Hallucinations, Guardian Angels and The Third Man: Dr Ben Alderson-Day on the strange science and true stories of the unseen other
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Keen On Keen: Andrew Keen on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, ChatGPT4 and the general state of tech in 2023
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Appropriating the appropriators: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on why female novelists like herself should appropriate the voices of men
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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As the Crisis Deepens: A rather miserable Keith Teare on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and our lack of trust in ideas and institutions
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Horror Literature as a Form of Realism: Leopoldo Gout on the living dead who layer Mexico City
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Grasping at the Realities of Today's Banking Crisis: Brad DeLong on the new economic laws of our social media age
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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The Case for Cultural Appropriation: Martin Puchner on how culture is simultaneously owned by nobody and by all of us
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Beijing 1949: Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the most consequential anti-colonial feminist conference that you've never heard of
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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How to Walk the Walk: Neil Gross on three police chiefs who defied the odds and changed American cop culture
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Has World War One Ended Yet? Alice Winn on innocence, privilege, violence, sexuality and love in 1914-18 England
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Broken threads, broken springs, broken idols, broken heads: Christopher Hobson on how everything everywhere - from the US and UK to Nigeria, Iraq, Lebanon and South Africa - is broken
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The Last Russian Doll: Kristen Loesch on fictionalizing and feminizing the history of 20th century Russia
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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A 21st Century Money Revolution: Richard Duncan outlines the monetary policy that can make America great again
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Celebrating International Women's Month: Tiffany Shlain on the history of feminism, tree rings and "Dendrofemonology"
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The Power of Wonder: Monica C. Parker on the extraordinary emotion that can change the way we live, learn and work
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The Death of American Politics: Peter Wehner on retribution, vengeance, forbearance and healing in Trump's America
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Playing God: Mary Jo McConahay on why American Catholic Bishops are a threat to democracy
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Bootstrapped: Alissa Quart on why we need to liberate ourselves from the "American Dream"
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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More Than a Glitch: Meredith Broussard confronts race, gender and ability bias in tech
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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A Murderous Women's History Month: Patti McCracken on some early 20th century Hungarian women who poisoned 160 men (plus a few females)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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On Human Agency and the Language of Grief: Colin Campbell explains why grieving is the quintessential human activity
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Are Mindfulness and Yoga the Luxuries of a Privileged Class? Susan Verde on childhood trauma, positive self-acceptance and her journey of healing
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The (a)Morality of War: Ian Buruma on how some people actively collaborated with evil during World War II
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The Silicon Valley Bank apocalypse: That Was the Week's Keith Teare on the death (and resurrection?) of SVB
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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What Gives You the Right? Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, "The Human Stain" and a novelist's "right" to tell other people's stories
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Why weren't the economic consequences of COVID more apocalyptic? Liz Hoffman on how government and companies successfully crash landed the COVID economy
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Craig Seligman on Doris Fish, the rise of drag and why Ron DeSantis should dress up as a woman
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Noise of Typewriters: Lance Morrow remembers the golden age of American journalism
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Empathize Empathize Empathize: Chris Shipley on how to "empower" the workforce in our post COVID world
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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How To Outrun Artificial Intelligence: Ashley Recanati on protecting YOUR job from the voracious smart machines of the AI revolution
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Without a Female Doubt: Surbhi Sarna on how woman can go from underrated to unbeatable
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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42 Today: Michael G. Long on why Jackie Robinson's political legacy is at least as important as his sporting one
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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THE BIG CON: Rosie Collington on how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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A Venture Apocalypse? Keith Teare on the collapse of start-up value, the failure of government to rein in Big Tech, and the relentless rise of AI
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Marriage Box: Corie Adjmi on her guilt at writing about "flawed" Jewish characters
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Women Are the Fiercest Creatures: Andrea Dunlop on why today is such a rage-inducing time to be a woman
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The New Language of Building: Reinier de Graaf on how our cities and buildings have been infected with the corporate doublespeak of "wellness", "innovation" and "livability"
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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A Radical Take on Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: Benjamin Abelow on how the West brought war to Ukraine
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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A Psychiatric Novel about Donald Trump: Peter Kramer fictionalizes the "Great Man's" inner life.
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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A Wooden World of Mud, the Stars and the Forest: Alexander Nemerov's Fable of America in the 1830s
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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50 Reasons to be Cheerful: Ryan Bernsten on why America isn't quite as divided as we are told
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Gnar Country: Steven Kotler on how to stay "rad" while growing old
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The New Deal's Unlikely Heroes: Derek Leebaert on FDR's Four Key Lieutenants and the World They Made
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Workers of the World Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Blood: Kathleen McLaughlin on the Plasma Industry Sucking the Blood of the American Poor
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The Indiana Jones of the Deep: Mensun Bound on the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance in the most hostile sea on earth
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Why Has Children's Literature Become So Politicized? Kelly Yang on Roald Dahl, Ron DeSantis and the new culture wars over kids' books
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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That Was The Week in tech: Keith Teare on Section 230, an AI bubble, the new China-Saudi axis, and Sam Bankman-Fried's growing legal woes
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Crisis, What Crisis? Paul Stephan on the world crisis triggered by our knowledge economy
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Big Myth: Erik Conway explains how American business taught us to loathe government and love the free market
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Should We Be Outraged By the New York Police Department? Michael Hayes on Bill de Blasio, the NYPD & the Broken Promises of Police Reform
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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America as Injustice, Inc: Daniel Hatcher on how the US criminal justice system commodifies children and the poor
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Our Meganets Nightmare: David Auerbach on How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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We All Live in Palo Alto Now: Malcolm Harris' History of California, America and the World
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Fictionalizing History: Jonathan Wilson on whether Palestine was a Jewish "state in waiting" during the 1930s
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Should Law about Press Freedom be Rewritten for our Internet Age? Samantha Barbas on how the Supreme Court might be preparing to overhaul New York Times vs Sullivan
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: Joel Warner on a notorious scoundrel, a mythical manuscript and the biggest scandal in literary history
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Some People Will Believe Anything: Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers and other anti-scientific fundamentalists
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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I am Still With You: Emmanuel Iduma's reckoning with the silence, inheritance and history of the Nigerian Civil War
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins on how China and the United States both seek world hegemony and what we can do about it
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Remembering Africatown: Nick Tabor on America's Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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An Affirming Flame: Roger Cohen meditates on life, politics and how to rebuild our age of undoing
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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ChatGPT gets sexy, Tesla fails to startup & Google gets ready for its Supreme Court showdown: That Was the Week in tech for 2/17/23
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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The Inside Story of Social Media: Steven Levy on Friendster, MySpace, Facebook and TikTok
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Black and Queer on Campus: Michael P. Jeffries on what life is like for Black LGBTQ students in American colleges today
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Purposeful Curiosity: Costas Andriopoulos on asking the right questions that will change our lives
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Go, Dorothy, Go! Lynn Cullen on the woman who gave up everything and changed the world
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Journeys in Earth's Extinct Ecosystems: Thomas Halliday on paleobiology, croquet and the inevitable end of our species
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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How To Remember Auschwitz-Birkenau? Wojciech Soczewica on why we must never forget this unique monument to evil
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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What Would Other Species Tell Us If They Could Talk? POD author Laline Paull on telling "humanimal" stories in the voice of other species
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Why Stress Can Be Good For Us: Ben Ramalingam on turning pressure into performance and crisis into creativity
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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When Will Silicon Valley Fix its Annoying Password Problem? Phillip Dunkelberger on digital technology that might finally kill the online password
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Instapundit on the Blogging Revolution: Glenn Reynolds remembers the early 21st century birth of our social media age
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Miss Aldridge Regrets: Louise Hare on how to write a successful second novel
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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No Miracles Needed: Mark Jacobson on how today's technology can save our climate and clean our air
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Fragile Cargo: Adam Brookes on the the World War II race to save the treasures of China's Forbidden City
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Freedom Moves: H. Samy Alim celebrates the Past, Present and Future of Hip Hop on its fiftieth birthday
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism: Why Capitalism and Democracy have fallen out of love and how to bring them back together
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Mai Nardone's unvarnished fictional truths about life in contemporary Thailand
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Burn the Boats: Matt Higgins on why we should all toss Plan B overboard
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Why All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Why Both America and Britain are Imprisoned in Empireland: Sathnam Sanghera on how the West has been shaped by its imperial past
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Happy B'Day, Abe!! John Cribb on what both Republicans and Democrats can learn from the great Rail Splitter on Lincoln's 214th birthday
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Bloodshed and Lies in Saudi Arabia: Jeed Basyouni on Mohammed bin Salman's Kingdom of Executions
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Can Populism Survive? Massimo Morelli on the nature and future of Populism
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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A Week is a Long Time in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on How Artificial Intelligence Is Now Unstoppable
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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The United Nations as Leviathan: Roland Rich on why we need to reinvent the UN
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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A Spiritual Void at the Core of the Influencer Industry? Emily Hund on on the sad quest for authenticity on social media
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Ghost at the Feast: Robert Kagan on America and the Collapse of the World Order 1900-1941
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Hijad Butch Blues: Lamya H on how to unf**k the world
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Revolutionary Roads: Bob Thompson gets into his gas guzzling VW in search of the American war of independence
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Maybe Tech Isn't So Evil: Darlene Damm on the exponential technologies that could radically improve the lives of billions of 21st century people
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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A Hacker's Mind: Bruce Schneier on how the powerful bend society's rules and how to bend them back
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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We Don't Know Ourselves: Fintan O'Toole on contemporary Ireland as a model for an open 21st century society
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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How to Fix a Broken Planet: Julian Cribb's advice for surviving the 21st century
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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An Assassin in Utopia: Susan Wels on the true story of a nineteenth-century sex cult and a President's murder
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Rising Up Against B******t Healthcare: Sonali Kolhatkar on Why Americans Want a Government Run Health System
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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On the Ocean's Awesomeness: Farah Obaidullah explains why our lives depend on healthy oceans
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Banking With Your Eyes Open: Robert Pickering on the rights and wrongs of contemporary banks and bankers
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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How to Fix Capitalism and Democracy? Raymond W. Baker on the "Invisible Trillions" that are Breaking American Society
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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From Doom to Bloom in 7 Days: Why Spring Has Arrived Unnaturally Early this Year in Silicon Valley
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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HOMO ECOPHAGUS: Warren M. Hern on how humans-beings have become a metastasizing cancer devouring our own ecosystem
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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How We Built the Wrong Internet: Thomas P. Vartanian on Rebuilding Cyberspace to Make it "Unhackable"
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The Case for "Regime Change" in Iran: Majid Sadeghpour on why the Current Iranian Theocracy can't be Reformed
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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How to Kick Addictive Ideologies: Dr Emily Bashah on ending violence in Israel/Palestine
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Return of the Dissident Academic Model: Balazs Trencsenyi on the Invisible University for Ukraine
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Eleanor Shearer on RIVER SING ME HOME: A post-slavery West Indian novel celebrating motherhood and female resilience.
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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When Everyone Leads: Julia Fabris McBride on what she claims as a "revolutionary approach" to fixing our toughest challenges
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Revolution WILL Be Podcasted: Zencastr founder Josh Nielsen on the democratization of professional podcasting
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Will Donald Trump EVER Go to Jail? Elie Honig on Trump's Houdini-like Ability To Get Away With It
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Why the Second World War Still Hasn't Ended in the Netherlands: Nina Siegal on Dutch Moral Complicity in the Nazi Persecution of Holland's Jews
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Dean Koontz on how to Sell 500 Million Books and Why AI Engines like ChatGPT Will Never Replicate the Human "Soul"
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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What Will Things Be like in 60,000 Years time? Annalee Newitz imagines the future of species, real-estate, love and dogs who shun humans
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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The Death of Unicorns, the birth of AI and the irrelevance of social media: That Was the Week in Tech for 1.27.23
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Journeys of a Humanitarian: How Jane Olson Emulated her Heroine Eleanor Roosevelt to Become a World Citizen
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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In the Nation's Service: Philip Taubman on George P. Shultz's UnTrumpian Role in Ending the Cold War
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Why BLK ART matters: Zaria Ware on the Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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How Political Dysfunction in DC is Effing Up U.S. Democracy: Lee Drutman on Breaking the American Two=Party Doom Loop
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Hunger, Loneliness and Misery at Work: Jon Clifton on the Global Rise of Unhappiness
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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This Is Not Who We Are: Zachary Shore on America's Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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No Longer Pale, Male or Stale: Valentine Low on How the British Royal Family is Transforming itself into a 21st Century Institution
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Forget Generative AI: Margaret Heffernan on Why the Future is Up To Us
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Say It Loud and Say It Proud: Natalie Lue on the Joy of Saying NO
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Frank Vogl on the American Bankers and Politicians Enabling Kleptocracy Around the World
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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George McCalman's Illustrated Black American History: How to Honor Both the Iconic and the Unseen
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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What Will Become of Syria in 2023? Joby Warrick on the Future of a Catastrophe
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Confessions of an Optimist: Publishing mogul Stephen Rubin on why he remains cheerful - even if 85% of books could have been written by a chatbot
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Damian Dibben on the Venetian Renaissance, Color in Art, and why We Should All Visit Venice Once in our Lives
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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An Existential Healthcare Crisis? Dr Robert Pearl on how the U.S. Medical System is Now Deeply Resistant to All Innovation
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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A Peculiarly American Sickness: Paul Auster and Spencer Ostrander on BLOODBATH NATION
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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DLD 2023: Quantum computing, Auschwitz-Birkenau, designing living brains & ubiquitous AI
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Danielle Clode on Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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The End of the Silicon Valley Myth: Why Big Tech now faces a Reckoning
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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01.20.23: That Was The Week in Tech
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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GEORGE KENNAN: A Life Caught Between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Curtis White on Transcendence: How Art and Dharma Can Save Us in a Time of Collapse
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Can an Updated Version of Dale Carnegie's 20th Century Help Us Fix Our 21st Century Future
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Why the Best Lessons in Life are Experienced rather than Learned
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The Revolt against Humanity: Adam Kirsch Imagines a Future Without Humanity"
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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LIFE ON MARS: IMAGINING THE FIRST CITY ON THE RED PLANET
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jacqueline Jones: What Does the Plight of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tells Us About the Struggle Today of All Americans For an Honest Living?
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Jayne Ann Krentz: Genre Fiction Matters Because It Enables Writers to Address Perennial Moral Issues Like Honor and How to Distinguish Between Right and Wrong
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Pico Iyer: Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Jared Yates Sexton: Midnight in America? Why the Coming Crisis in the Republic Offers Hope For a Better Future
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Angela Stent: Why 2023 Probably Won't Bring An End to the War in Ukraine and Other Unpalatable Truths From the Putin World
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Corinne Sawers: Why the Pro-Market American Model of Confronting Today's Climate Emergency Might Offer the Most Realistic Way to Get to Net Zero
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Jim Campbell on the Ponzi Boys: What Makes Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried the Same Type of Monstrous Human-Being?
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Martha Nussbaum: Why Justice for Animals Means Eliminating the Word "Pet" and Perhaps Even Giving Citizenship to Other Species
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Brad Feld: The Tech Community Needs To Be Humble to Survive With What Will Be a "Challenging" 2023
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Beezy Marsh: Remembering a London of 1946 in Which Fearsome Female Gangsters Ran the Show
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Leigh Goodmark on the Case for Abolition Feminism: Why We Need to Decriminalize Domestic Violence
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Frank Smyth: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Messenger: Why the Bad 2022 News About Gun Proliferation and Violence in America Will Probably Only Get Worse in 2023
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Peter Pomerantsev: Why the "Evil" Russian Invasion of Ukraine Will Only End When the West Arms Ukraine With Missiles That Can Reach Russian Cities
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Kevin Boyle: How to Escape the Culture-War Paranoia That Has Infected American Politics Since the Sixties
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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William Deresiewicz: Why 2022 Was a Good Year For American Liberals Fighting Against the Fundamentalism of Both Left- and Right-Wing Intolerance
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Chris Schroeder: How to Read 100 Books in 2023 Without Going to Live in a Library or a Bookstore
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Rick Wartzman: How Joe Biden Has Done More For Labor Unions Than Any President Since FDR and What to Hope For in 2023 to Maintain This Progress
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Jenny Kleeman on Humanity's Fate in 2022: Have We All Become Frogs Being Slowly Boiled Alive in the Pot of Technological "Progress"?
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Soli Özel on the Middle East in 2022: Iran, Israel, Turkey, the Gulf, and the Other Asymmetries of a Multi-Polar Region
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Gary Gerstle: How Liz Truss, The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and Joe Biden's Economic Policies Have All Contributed to the Decline, and Perhaps Even Death, of Neo-Liberalism in 2022
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Christopher Leonard: Why Our Inflationary Crisis Might Not Be Over and How This Could Trigger a Broader Economic Collapse in 2023
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Gary Marcus: Why We're Going to Need More Human Intelligence and More Liberal Arts Education In Our Imminent Age of AI
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Julia Hobsbawm: Why the 2022 Trend of the Year Was Working From Home and How This Probably Won't Change in 2023
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Larry Downes on How the Federal Government Failed to Rein in Big Tech in 2022: Expect the Same Inaction in 2023
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Peter Wehner: Why 2022 Might Represent the End of the Trump Era and What Might Replace It in 2023
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Elissa Epel: More Empathy, More Psychedelics, or More Grapefruit? How to Best Relieve Stress in 2023
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Matthew Krogh on Why Watergate Will Never Die: The Moral Lessons of One of Nixon's White House Plumbers
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Chris Miller: Why 2022 Was the Year of the Chip and the Three Great Unanswered Questions That Will Bedevil Us in 2023
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Peter Coy: Why Inflation Dominated Our 2022 Economy and Why Everything Might Change in 2023
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Martin Rees: Why 2022 Was a Triumphant Year for Science and What Needs to Happen in 2023 to Build Upon These Advances
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Vivek Wadhwa on Modi, Indian Tech, and Kashmir: What America Gets Wrong About India
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Rob Reich and Jeremy Weinstein on Political Regulation and a Moral Education: What Needs to Happen in 2023 to Reign in Big Tech
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Jonathan Rauch: Why We Should Be Cautiously Optimistic About the Future of American Democracy, Especially If Joe Biden Doesn't Stand Again For President
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Joanne McNeil: What Can We Learn About the AOL Experience of the 1990s to Make Today's Internet More User-Friendly and Civil?
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Tony Hiss: No, We Aren't on the Verge of an Environmental Apocalypse: Why 2022 Was a Promising Year For the Planet and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Maintain This Progress
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Maciej Kisilowski: How the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Trigger a Nuclear Apocalypse and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Avert This Catastrophe
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Lev Golinkin: Should Stanford and Harvard Really Be Naming Fellowships and Academic Chairs in Honor of Nazi War Criminals?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Charles Kupchan: Yes, 2022 Was a "Pivotal" Year in International Politics. Yet We Still Don't Know How the World Will Dramatically Tilt in 2023.
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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J. Bradford DeLong: How Joe Biden's "Supply Side Progressivism" Has Actually Made 2022 A Good Economic Year For Most Americans
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Allison Gilbert on From Colleen Hoover to New York's New Wage Transparency Law: The Good News For Women About 2022
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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David Kirkpatrick: The Year That Elon Musk Became Vladimir Putin: How We Lost All Our Moral Illusions About Big Tech in 2022
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Alejandro Crawford: How to Empower Truly Rebellious Entrepreneurs to Do Good in the World
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Katherine Stewart: Why American Religious Nationalism is on the Rise in 2022—and How to Confront It in 2023
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Mary Annaïse Heglar: The Case for Climate Reparations: Our Environmental Crisis Isn't a "Villainless Crime"
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Orville Schell on China in 2022: A Crack in Xi Jinping's Leninist Authoritarianism?
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Joshua Browder: Should We Celebrate Technology Which Enables the Disruption of Local Government?
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Ewan Morrison on Against Nihilism: Why Belief in Anything is Better Than Nothing
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Keith Teare on a Crypto Winter and the Dawn of the AI Age: How Silicon Valley Will Remember 2022
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Weili Dai: How AI and the Metaverse Will Combine to Create a More "Efficient" Future
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Maurice Saatchi: Finally Revealed… Why Some of Us Go to Heaven and Why Some of Us End Up in Hell
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Stephen Bezruchka: Why America Needs a "Sputnik Moment" To Reform Its Radically Inegalitarian Healthcare System
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Keith Teare: Are We on the Brink of a Magical AI Age in Which Talking With a Smart Machine Will Be Considered Both Normal and Essential?
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Countress of Carnarvon on the Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Ahmed White: What the Early 20th Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Allegra Goodman : What Happens When a Novelist "Overparents" Their Characters? How a Fictional Creation Can Fight Back Against Their Helicopter Author`
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Aaron De Smet: Why, In Our Age of Permanent Volatility, We Need to Foster a Zen-Like "Deliberate Calm"
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Daniel Akst: Why World War II's Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Heroic Pacifism As For Its Selfless Sacrifice in Battle
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Why All Writers, Especially Novelists, Are Political: Which Is Why Novels Can Change the World
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Esther Woolfson: The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Chloe Sorvino: How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Michael Kimmelman: Why New York Should Be Savored on Foot Rather Than From an Automobile
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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David Marchick: What Do FDR, Trump, and Lincoln Have in Common? The Worst Transitions of Presidential Power in American History
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Samantha Vérant: How to Live in France and Write Novels About Fine Food and Wine
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Bob Blaisdell on When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Lynne Twist: What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Max Bazerman: Crypto, #MeToo, Theranos, and January 6: How We Enable the Unethical
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Martin Lund on How to Fight Racism? We Need More Books and Conversations About Whiteness
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Martin Lund on How to Fight Racism? We Need More Books and Conversations About Whiteness
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Paul Boross: How Humor is the Best Antidote to Theocracy In Both Politics and the Workplace
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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MinaLima on The Art of Designing the Graphics For the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beast Films
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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There's More to Life Than Politics: Orville Schell's Fictional Message to Xi Jinping
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Kristin Keffeler: Why Do We Care About the Scions of Wealthy American Families Struggling to Find Purpose?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Josiah Ober: In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Michael J. Wolf: If AI, Web3.0, and the Metaverse Are Utopian Pipe Dreams, What Internet Innovation Can Actually Help Save the World?
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Robert Draper on Weapons of Mass Distraction: How the Republican Party Lost Its Mind After the January 6 Insurrection
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Bruce Davis: Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Shahan Mufti: How the 1977 Siege of Washington Marks the Beginning of Our Preoccupation With "Terrorist" Violence and Real-Time News
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Andrew Koppelman: How American Libertarianism Became the Delusional Ideology of Greedy, Selfish Capitalists
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Fred Hogge on An Icy Truth: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity and Destroy the Environment
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Roger Ballen: Why Good Photography Should Get Underneath Our Skin and Assault Us
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Michael P. Leiter: Why the Latest Battle Between Elon Musk and Twitter Works Is Part of a Bigger War About Burnout and the Need to Manage People's Relationships With Their Jobs
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Gary Marcus: Why Smart Machines Will Probably Never Replicate the Human Act of Writing and How Writers Should View AI Suspiciously —"Like a Hawk"
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Derek Lidow: Why Joshiah Wedgwood—And Not Andrew Carnegie, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk—Is the Definition of a "Good Entrepreneur"
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital Age
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Jeff Kosseff: What Exactly Is Section 230 and Why Was It So Essential in the Creation of the Internet?
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Rick Wartzman on Why Are Walmart Workers Still Broke? The Limits of a "Socially Conscious" American Capitalism That Still Won't Pay Its Employees a Living Wage
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Matthew Campbell on Dead in the Water: The True Story of a Fake Hijacking and a Real Murder
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Andrew Small on A Cold War Without Limits: The Chilling Story of China's Rupture With the West
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Neal Gabler on You Don't Need to Be a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: Ted Kennedy and the Rise of American Conservatism
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Lucas Joppa: Why Both Government and Private Corporations Have Essential Roles in Confronting Global Warming
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Jessica Todd Harper: Why Photography Can Be Fine Art and What Photographers Should Learn From Vermeer and Other 17th Century Dutch Artists
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Isaac Stone Fish on America Second: Is It Really Possible That America's Elites Are Making China Stronger?
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Daphne E. Jones on a Note to Donald Trump: This Is How to Become a Real Winner
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Andrew Anagnost: How the Moral Sickness Afflicting Silicon Valley Might Be a Pandemic of Egoism
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Peter Rawlinson: The Truth About Battery-Powered and Self-Driving Cars From the Engineer Who Invented the Tesla Model S and the Lucid Air
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Edward J. Delaney on Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn't Really Exist
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Andrew S. Weiss on Super Unhero: Vladimir Putin, the Accidental Czar, Imagined Graphically
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Ken Honda on How to Become a Zen Millionaire: The Japanese Art of Making Peace With Your Money
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Mark Galeotti: How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Alexander Rose on The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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David Fenton on Lessons From Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator: Never Lie, Tell the Truth, Repeat Repeat Repeat
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Ian Kershaw: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Richard McCarthy: What Japan Can Teach Urban Americans About Regenerating Rural Values and Practices
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Steve Kemper: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Eduardo Halfon: Why "Writing" Has Nothing to Do With Being a "Writer"
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Katherine Corcoran: How the 2012 Murder of a Mexican Journalist Should Be a Warning About Press Freedoms in America
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Andrew Hill on the Sign of Our Financial Times: How 2022's Best Business Books Address the Challenges of Contemporary Global Capitalism
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Shannon O'Neil on The Globalization Myth: Why Most Economics Is Regional
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Travis Baldree: Want to Self-Publish Successfully? Write Fast, Leverage All Your Social Media Networks, and Prioritize Memorable Cover Art
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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John Mulholland on Inside High Noon: Why the Classic 1952 Movie Is As Relevant in America Today As It Was 70 Years Ago
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Ellis Cose on Reckoning on Race: Why Can't America Escape Its Racist Past?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Adam Mendelsohn on What Was It Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln's Armies: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Colleen and John Darnell on Tutankhamun's Royal Mom and Dad: On Egypt's Golden Couple
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Aric Prather on The Good Sleep Prescription: Stick Your Head in the Freezer, "Worry Early," and Stop Taking Your Smartphone to Bed
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Maud Newton: How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Isaac Fitzgerald: What's Wrong (And Right) With American Male Writers
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Paul Tucker: What Chinese and American Statesmen Need to Do to Lessen Global Discord
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Priyanka Kumar: How "Reading" Nature, Especially Birds, Enables Us to Transcend Ourselves
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Ben Kesling: The Gut-Wrenching Story of One U.S. Army Unit's Experience in Afghanistan
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Samantha Cole: How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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RJ Andrews: Why the Future of Publishing For One Start-Up Entrepreneur is High-End and Analog Books That Visualize Data
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Lenore Andreson: How California is Pioneering the Reform of the American Criminal Justice System
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Claudia Lux: Imagining a Kafkaesque Hell in Which There Is Only Jägermeister to Drink and the Devil Is a Corporate Bureaucrat
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Henrietta Harrison on the 18th-Century China Question: The Perils of Translating Between Qing China and the British Empire
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Greg Melville: How Cemeteries Reveal America's Most Hidden and Often Deadliest History
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Paul Sexton: Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Colin L. Read on Not the People's Money: Uncovering Bitcoin's Catastrophic Economic and Environmental Cost
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Karen Bakker: A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Maud Newton: How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Evan Mandery: How Elite Colleges Divide, Disorient, and Diminish Us
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Martin Rees on the Limits of Science: Why the Universe Might Be Too Complex For Humans to Ever Understand
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Michael Stein on Accidental Kindness: A Doctor's Thoughts on the Importance of Empathy
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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John A. Farrell on How Ted Kennedy Became a Great Man When He Was Most Distanced From the U.S. Presidency
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Mae Ngai on The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Cody Keenan on Ten Days in June: On a Pivotal Moment in Barack Obama's "Battle" for America
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Daniel Drache: Has Populism Won? Must Democratic Politics, on Both Left and Right, Be Populist Now?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Orly Lobel: Can Digital Technology Can Be Harnessed to Realize Equality, Inclusion, and a Brighter Future?
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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David Sax: Why, If We Want to Create a More Human World, the Future Must Be Analog
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Jonathan Clegg on Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World's Game Over the Last 20 Years
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Katie Hickman on Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Joseph Sassoon on A History of the Sassoons—One of the World's Great Global Merchant Families
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Becca Andrews: How the Destruction of Roe v. Wade Undermines Fundamental American Rights
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Vladislav M. Zubok on the Soviet Union Might Be Dead, But the Consequences of Its Disastrous Collapse Continue to Haunt Us
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Emily Tamkin on Bad Jews: On American Jewish Politics and Identities
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Nicci French on Two Minds, One Writer: How a Husband-and-Wife Have Strengthened Their Bond by Writing Psychological Thrillers About the "Twisty" Human Condition
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Christine Wells on When 007 Was Female: A World War Two Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Michael T. Hartney: Why American Teachers' Unions Are So Powerful and How This Hasn't Enriched Democracy or Improved Schooling in the United States Today
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Robert T. Tally Jr. on Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien's Hobbit For the Left
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Peter Robison: How Boeing's 737 Max Tragedy Offers a Parable About the Immorality of Late Stage Industrial Capitalism
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Ann Hood: Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Really So Much More Fun in the Glamorous Age of Trans World Airlines and High Heeled Stewardesses?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Matthew F. Delmont: The Simultaneously Heroic and Shameful Story of African Americans' Involvement in World War II
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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David Welch: How General Motors CEO Mary Barra Is the Anti Elon Musk and How That Impacts Her Goal of Reinventing the Iconic American Car Manufacturer
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Nicholas Dawidoff: How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Kyle Spencer on Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Trond Undheim: How Augmented Technology Can Revolutionize the 21st-Century Factory and Make Work More Productive and Meaningful
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Timothy Shenk on Realigners: The Visionaries and Hacks Who Have Radically Transformed American Democracy
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Veronica Roth on After Surveillance: Imagining a Post-Apocalyptic World in Which We Aren't Watched Anymore
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Keith Boykin: How Quitting is the Essential First Step to a Life of Freedom—and Radical Change
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Shadi Hamid: Is There a Problem of Democracy in the Middle East? Or Is the Problem With an American Misunderstanding of "Democracy"?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Natasha Warikoo: Is Affirmative Action Fair? Thinking About College in Terms of the Public Good
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Ryan O'Hanlon on the End of the Beautiful Game? How the Analytics Revolution Is Changing Soccer
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Maybe Even Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On This One: How Dreaming Big Requires Both Self-Deprecating Humor and the Ability to Cry
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Anna Badkhen on Today's Bright Unbearable Reality: We Need to Dream Differently
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Gautam Mukunda on How to Pick an American President? Making the Most Consequential Decision in the World
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Lisa Hajjar on Fighting Guantanamo: How Hundreds of Lawyers Successfully Challenged the Illegal Treatment of Prisoners Captured in the American War on Terror
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Chris Miller on Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is Computer Chip Technology
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Sean Connolly on How Irish Immigration Made the World Modern
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Natasha Lance Rogoff on Muppets in Moscow: The Crazy Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Rita Katz: In Our Age of Internet-Born Terrorism, Should We Consider QAnon, ISIS, Proud Boys, and Individual School Shooters to All Be Terrorists?
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Jerry Stahl on Which Nazi Concentration Camp Had the Best Cafeteria
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Alice Wexler Remembers Her Father, Milton, An Unconventional and Controversial Freudian Psychoanalyst
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Victor Pickard on Why American Democracy Can't Survive Without Reliable Journalism: How to Confront Our Misinformation SocietyVictor Pickard
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Patrick House on How All Writers, Even Neuroscientists, Seek the Impossible: To Replicate Our Unique Interiority
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Daniel Gross on What Makes a "Great" Banker? The Story of Edmond Safra, One of the Greatest Bankers of the 20th Century
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Michael Bess on Climate, Pandemic, Artificial Intelligence, and Nukes: Identifying and Overcoming the Four Most Existential Threats to Humanity
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Bruce Usher on Good News on the Climate Front: We Finally Have the Technologies to Confront the Crisis
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Simon Morrison on the Life and Work of Stevie Nicks: A Great Artist or a Footnote to the Glory Years of the Sixties?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Mauro Porcini on the Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love With People
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Tricia Hersey on How Best to Resist Capitalism and Racism? Wake Up, Rest, and Dream
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Nora McInerny: Why America Needs a National "Bad Vibes Only" Day In Which We Can All Be Totally Miserable
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Lecia Cornwall on That Fictional Summer in Berlin: When a British Aristocrat, and Her Camera, Revealed the Truth About the Nazi Regime
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Michael Tomasky: No. Don't Laugh. Why Joe Biden, In His Embrace of Progressive Economics, Might Be the Next FDR or LBJ
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Sean Kingsley on Confronting Colonial Amnesia: Dredging Up the Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Stacy Schiff: What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Melissa Urban: Does Self Require Us to Be Selfish? How Setting Boundaries In Our Relationships Can Set Us Free
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Thomas B. Pepinsky on Pandemic Politics in the Covid Age: Why American Democracy Has Been Infected By a Plague of Partisanship and How to Cure It
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Adrian Geiges and Stefan Aust: How Xi Jinping Is the Most Powerful Man in the World and What This Means for the United States and Europe
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Kay Harel on Examining Charles Darwin's Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Lorraine H. Marchand: How Can We Democratize Economic Opportunity So That It's Not Just White Men Who Boast of Being "Innovators"?
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Deborah Holt Larkin on More Real-Life Murder Stories: The Evil Mother-in-Law Who Organized One of California's Grisliest Killings
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Dale Kretz: What Progressives Can Learn From the General Failure of the American State to Address the Legacy of Slavery After the Civil War
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Paul Magnone on How to Make Smart Business Decisions In Our Age of Big Data: Don't Rely Exclusively on Either Your Intuition or Your Information
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Kieran Setiya: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way in a Life of Infirmity, Loneliness, and Failure
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Nancy Marie Brown on the Wisdom of the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Hillary Chute on Maus Now: Why Art Spiegelman's Classic Remains As Relevant Today As It Was When First Serialized in 1980
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Jennifer Brown: Can American Capitalism Be Radically Transformed by Leaders Who Create Inclusive Cultures Where Everyone Can Thrive?
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Erika Hayasaki on Somewhere Sisters: The Complex Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
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Oct 07, 2022 |