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By Andrew Keen
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The daily show about books, writers, and big ideas. Hosted by Andrew Keen.
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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 Asshole: Jeremy Sherman's psycho-proctological analysis of why there are so many assholes 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 Bullshit 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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Rae Meadows: What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America
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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 |
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Daniel Pick on Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Lynn Melnick: What Dolly Parton Can Teach Us About Surviving the Trauma of Drug Addiction and Sexual Violence
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Allison Gilbert on Elsie Robinson, America’s Most Popular Female Writer Who You’ve Never Heard Of
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Bruce Carruthers on the Economy of Promises: How Trust, Power, and Credit Have Shaped America Over the Last Two Hundred Years
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Ainslie Hogarth: A Profane, Insane, Hilarious, and Disgusting Horror Novel About a Mother-In-Law from Hell
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Namwali Serpell on Grief and Its Association With Religion and Writing
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Dr. Cindy McGovern: Why the First Lady of Sales Believes That the Word “Sales” Appears So Icky and Cringeworthy
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Richard Reeves Identifies Today’s Crisis of Masculinity and Explains How to Fix It
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Geoffrey L. Cohen: Is There Really a “Science” of Belonging Which Enables Us to Create Connection and Bridge Divides?
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Brian Michael Jenkins: Plagues and Their Aftermath: Why Recovering From Covid Is Really “Up to Us”
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Thomas Orlik: Why the Chinese Economic "Bubble" Might Never Pop
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Jamie Weiner: How Much Sympathy Should We Have for the Children of Privilege Who Have Lost Their Way in Life?
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: How the Upcoming Brazilian Presidential Election is a Referendum on Racism, Misogyny, and Military Rule
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Michael Fabey: How American Shipyard Workers Might Offer Us Lessons on How to Re
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Liza Lin: Why China’s “New Kind” of Modern Surveillance Government Might Not Be Quite as Chilling as it Appears
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Alex Jahangir: Covid Isn’t Over and Won’t Be Until We Fix Some of America’s Fundamental Social and Cultural Problems
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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John Sides on the Bitter End: The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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John U. Bacon on Winning Fairly: Lessons About Successful Leadership From a Real-Life Ted Lasso
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Caryn Franklin & Keon West: How to Recognize and Undermine Sexism, Racism, and Other Corrosive Media Biases
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Rina Raphael on the Wellness Scam: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the Cult of Self-Care
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Brandi Collins-Dexter on Black Skinheads and Kanye West: Reflecting on the Democratic Party As the Natural Political Home of African Americans
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Andrew Meier: A Defense of Aristocracy? How the American Morgenthau Dynasty Pursued an Ethic of Public Service
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Lewis H. Ziska: How Rising CO2 Is Turning Life on Earth Into a Bad Science Fiction Movie
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Amit Chaudhuri on Post-Realist Fiction: Why Realism Is No Longer an Adequate Novelistic Form for Describing the World
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Phyllis Vine: Why the Next Major Civil Rights Movement Is Mental Health Activism
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Kate Beaton on Why Ducks, Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir, Isn’t Quite As “Desolate” or “Dismal” As Some Critics Have Suggested
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Matthew Stewart: Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Mark LeVine on We’ll Play Till We Die: The Role of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Sarah Kendzior: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Simultaneously Complacent and Paranoid
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Kathryn and Ross Petras on Brains, Breasts, Bowels, and Bladders: A History of the World Through Body Parts
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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David Enrich: How Complicit Is Big Law in the Crimes and Misdemeanors of American Capitalism?
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Joe Pompeo: What a Scandalous Double Murder in September 1922 Tells Us About America’s Current Obsession With “Trume Crime”
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Nicholas Kardaras: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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David Ambroz on Something All Americans Should Agree On: No Homeless Children and More Foster Kids in College Than in Jail
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Lisa Genova: How Writers Can Use Both Memory and Forgetting to Improve Their Work
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Kristin Beck: Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Luke Mogelson: How Seriously Should We Consider the January 6 Insurrection As a Threat to the American Republic?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Damien Lewis on a Profound Sense of Duty: What Josephine Baker Had in Common With Queen Elizabeth II
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Andy Kroll on the Madness of Online Crowds: What the 2016 Murder of Seth Rich Tells Us About Our Conspiratorial Age
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Kim Samuel: Should the Right to “Belong” Be Enshrined As a Sacred Human Right?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Jason Feifer on Darwin 2.0: How to Embrace Change, Adapt Fast, and Future Proof Both Your Career and Your Life
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Michael Sayman: How the Gay Son of First-Generation Peruvian Immigrants Became the Most Influential Latino in Silicon Valley
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Mark Bergen: Given YouTube’s World Domination, Should the Google-Owned Video Platform Be More Aggressively Regulated and Controlled?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Douglas Rushkoff: What the Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires Reveal About Our Apocalyptic Age
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Josh Chin: Why China’s “Surveillance State” Is More Nuanced Than Either China Lovers or Haters Would Have Us Believe
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Ross Dawson: How Can We Be Sure That This “Futurist” Author Isn’t, In Fact, a Smart Machine?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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David Livermore: How to Get Along With People That You Want to Eradicate
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell: Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Louise Perry: No More Sex? A “Feminist” Case Against the Sexual Revolution
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Jonathan Darman: How FDR Learned to Be FDR: The Personal Crisis That Transformed Him Into a Historic Leader
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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A.M. Homes: Why American Novelists Need to Not Just Keep Up With But Also Overtake Reality
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Helen Rappaport: In Search of Mary Seacole, a Quite Remarkable Black Cultural Icon
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Neal Wooten on Life Growing Up on a Pig Farm in the Alabama Mountains: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Bill McGuire on Hothouse Earth: Why We’ve Only Got 90 Months Left to Save the Planet
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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That Was the Week in Tech: Why Substack Is a Bust, How Apple Can't Do AI, and Why China Is Thrashing the U.S. in Clean Tech Innovation
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Solito: Javier Zamora’s Memoir of His Unaccompanied Migration From El Salvador to California at the Age of Nine
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Richard Winters, MD: Should Good "Leaders" Get Rid of the Idea of Leadership Itself?
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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J. Bradford DeLong on Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Wealthy and Miserable 20th Century
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Patricia A. Turner: What Can We Learn from Anti-Obama Trash Talk to Confront Racism in 21st-Century American Politics
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Sterling Hawkins: Why “Discomfort” Might Be the Key To Not Just a Meaningful Life But Also a Happy Death
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Bill George: Shut Up, Elon! Why Business Leaders Need to Get Off Social Media and Keep Their Views To Themselves
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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W. David Marx: Does Our Desire for Social Rank Determine Taste, Identity, Art, and Fashion?
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Evan Puschak: On Public Benches, Superman, Blade Runner, and Other Stuff That Gives Life Meaning
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Tim Higgins on the Tesla Story: Is Elon Musk the Hero, The Villain, or Just an Accidental Footnote to the Company’s Remarkable Engineers and Workers?
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Mansi Choksi on An Alternative Passage to India: Rebelling Against Conventional Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Modi's India
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Dahlia Lithwick: Is There a Supreme Court Plot to Destroy America?
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Dana Milbank: How the Republicans Have Become the Destructionist Party and How This Might Destroy American Democracy
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Dimitris Xygalatas: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Anna DeForest: How American Medicine, With Its Reliance on the Scientific “Data,” Does Such a Bad Job of Dealing With Life’s Greatest Mystery: Death
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Mia Baytop Russell: How to Confront Corporate Burnout and Make Work Meaningful Again
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Benjamin Cunningham: The Wife-Swapping Czech Double Agent Whose Sad Saga Captured the Nihilism of the Cold War Era
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Phillip Levine: Why Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal Isn’t the Solution to the Real Economic Injustices of the American College System
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Christian Busch: Is the “Serendipity” of “Good Luck” Just More Neo-Liberal Pseudo-Science From Our Business School Elite?
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Linda Villarosa: Why Racism Is the Deadliest Pandemic Afflicting Both African-American Lives and the Health of the Nation
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Linda Kinstler: On How We Remember the Holocaust
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Gary Weiss: What Donald Trump Might Have Learned From the Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Anya Kamenetz on The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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William Deresiewicz: Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Sinclair McKay on Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Dan Bouk on Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S. Census
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Jean Hanff Korelitz: Forget Politics: Why a Novelist’s First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Kathleen Hale: What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Laura Mason: How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Jessica Nordell on The End of Bias: How to Create a More Just (and Prosperous) World
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Graciela Mochkofsky on The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Journey to the Promised Land
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Justin Gregg: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Hans Greimel & William Sposato: Is the Carlos Ghosn Story Really a Parable About the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neo-Liberal Order?
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Sean McLain: What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contemporary Japan?
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Natasha Sizlo: How an LA Real-Estate Agent Went to Paris and Wrote a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Destiny
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Mike Rothschild: Is QAnon a Threat to Civilization or Childish Distraction For the Digital Underclass?
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Peter Coy: Why Economics Might Not Be the Dismal Science That We Love to Hate
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Christopher Kolenda: What Afghan War Veterans Can Teach America About How to Listen Empathically To Our “Enemies”
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Richard Vague on Wiping the Financial Slate Clean: The Case For a Debt Jubilee
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Dean Schroeder: What Denver and the Danes Can Teach Silicon Valley About Innovating Local Government
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Brad Feld: The Tech Industry Isn’t a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Major Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki: Remembering the US War in Afghanistan and the Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Wendy Smith on Profit AND Social Responsibility? How Today’s Leaders Should Confront Our Toughest Problems
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Nick Kostov on the Carlos Ghosn Story: A Modern-Day Greek Tragedy or the Parable of a Shameless Criminal Mastermind?
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Kate Finn: Today Is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. But What Should We Be Celebrating?
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Elliot Ackerman: Why the American “Retreat” From Afghanistan Was a Giant Fuck-Up And How It Represents the Final Act of a Classic Five-Part Tragedy
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Sabine Hossenfelder: An Existential Physicist Answers Life’s Biggest Questions: Does God Exist? Is There Life in the Universe? Are We Living In a Simulated Reality?
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Alan Murray: Tomorrow’s Capitalism: Searching For that Elusive “Soul” of American Business
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Anthony Marra: The Tools Which Allow Novelists to Create More “Realistic” Characters Than Those You See on the Screen
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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David Chalmers: If the World Itself Is a Giant Simulation, Then What's the Difference Between the Virtual Reality of Cyberspace and "Real Life"?
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Liska Jacobs on The Pink Hotel: A California Novel Where You Can Check In But You Can’t Check Out
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Steven Thrasher: In the Age of Covid and Monkeypox, Should We Be Prioritizing the Health of the “Viral Underclass”?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Dwyer Murphy: How to Write About the City? Go Out Without an iPhone
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Isaac Saul: Yes, “Truth” Still Exists in the Misinformation Age, But It’s Unlikely to Make Many of Us Happy
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Nancy Jacobson and Ryan Clancy: How a 2024 Trump-Biden Rematch Would Be a “Black Swan” Moment For a Third Party Candidate
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Kevin Boyle: Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Dan Fesperman: On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted By Its Grey History of Secrecy and Lies
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Camper English: On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Howard Wolk: Why America’s Greatest Strength Is Its Entrepreneurial Edge and How This Might Even Fix the Crisis of the Environment, Inequality, and Healthcare
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Christie Hunter Arscott: On Begin Boldly and How Courage Will Enable a Woman to Launch a Brilliant Career
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Jeff Lerner: Should We Celebrate Or Be Suspicious of Self-Help Books Promise to Unlock Our “Dream Life”?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Gerd Gigerenzer: What Machines Can’t Learn and Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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David Victor Has Good News on the Climate Front: Why Things Aren’t Quite as Apocalyptic as Some Believe
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Stefan Dercon on Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Touraj Parang: Can Tech Entrepreneurs Win the Start-Up Game Without Selling Out Morally?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Aggie Blum Thompson: Why It's So Much Easier to Write Good Fiction About Violence Than About Sex
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Pablos Holman, A Message From a Deep Futurist: We Need Humans to Fix Things
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Darrell M. West; How Seriously Should We Take the Paranoia Amongst Our Educated Elite About the Crisis of America?
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Simran Jeet Singh: What the Sikh Religion Can Teach Us About Disrupting Bias, Building Empathy, and Seeking Wisdom
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Erika L. Sánchez: Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st Century "American"
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Will Revolutionize Everything and Why That Might Not Be Such a Bad Thing
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Orna Ophir: How a Pathology of “Schizophrenia” Might Reflect a Broken Society As Much as a Broken Mind
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Leah McLaren: A Daughter’s Memoir of a Mom Who Passed Down Her Trauma and Made Their Lives Impossible to Disentangle
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Alice Mah on Plastics, the One Word That Best Describes Our Global Environmental Crisis
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Harald H.H.W. Schmidt: Why “The End of Medicine As We Know It” Will Make All of Us Healthier and Happier
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Ariel Ezrachi: How Cities, Rather Than Big Tech, Should Be the Engine for a More Equitable Digital Future
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Monique Roffey: The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why The Mermaid of Black Conch is a “Caribbean Novel”
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Maureen Perry-Jenkins on Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Saleem H. Ali: Do We Need a Science Party to Confront Existential Problems Like Global Warming?
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Ari Mittleman: Does Criticism of Israel Inevitably Make One Guilty of Antisemitism?
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Albert Fox Cahn: How Digital Surveillance In a Post-Roe America Isn’t Substantively Different From Xi’s China or Putin’s Russia
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Donald Robertson: Why the Graphic Novel Is an Ideal Form to Capture the Timeless Philosophy of Stoicism
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jacob M. Grumbach: Why the Crisis of American Democracy Is As Much a State and Local As a National Problem
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane: How We Can’t Escape Social Class, Gender, or Culture in How We Dream
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Jared Del Rosso: Why All We Need to Become Whistleblowers in Exposing Both Political and Personal Injustice
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Deborah Cadbury: The Remarkable Story of the Quaker Teacher Who Defied Hitler and Smuggled Her Entire School From Germany to England
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Toby Walsh: If Our Superpower Is Human Empathy, Then Why the Hell Are We Trying to Teach Computers To Be Empathetic?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Richard Hasen: Can American Democracy Be Fixed By Making Political Speech More Expensive?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Ken Auletta: What Does the Harvey Weinstein Story Tell Us About the Culture of Silence in Hollywood and America?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Charles Sabel: To Fix the Climate We Need to Rewire the Economy, Our Democracy, and Our Brains
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Michael Fertik: On Washington Irving, John Muir, Philip Dick, Jonathan Haidt and what America Has Uniquely Got Going For It
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Aviva Rahmani: Why Telling Effective Stories About the Environment Requires Not Just Words But Also Visual Images and Even Music
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Daniel S. Moak: Why America's Current War on Schools Is the Result of Fifty Years of Failed Federal Educational "Reforms"
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Ed Yong: Why Perceiving Animal Senses Makes Us Empathetic Not Only to Other Creatures But Also to Each Other
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Daniel Silva on How to Write a Bestselling Literary Spy Novel Every Year
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Leake on How the Soviet and American Invasions of Afghanistan Are Comparable
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Daniel Drezner on the End of Donald Trump, Green Tech, Apocalyptic Zombies: Why Americans Should Be Cheerful About the Future
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Marianne Lewis: How Life's Toughest Problems Are Most Effectively Confronted By "Both/And Thinking"
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Jason Kander: A Disturbing Autobiography From One of America's Most Candid Ex-Politicians and Soldiers
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Brett Scott: Why Wall Street and Silicon Valley Want a Cashless Society and Why That Doesn’t Benefit Us
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Rebecca May Johnson's Homeric Wisdom For Cooks and Writers: You Just Have to Keep On “Doing It”
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Jamie Susskind: How the Digital Republic Could Deepen Democracy and Compound Freedom in the 21st Century
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Bernhard Poerksen: Can an “Editorial Society” Heal Our Digital Fever of Misinformation and Lies?
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Max Holleran on NIMBYism vs YIMBYism: How to Reinvent the City to Solve the Homelessness Pandemic
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Jonathan Rauch Contemplates (and Fears) a Post-Democratic America
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Ian Buruma: What to Make of America On Its 246th Birthday
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Daniel Birnbaum: Wassily Kandinsky and the Uncannily Contemporary Origins of 20th Century Abstract Art
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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George Monbiot on How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Verlyn Klinkenborg on How to Write Well About Nature: Simplify Language, Empathize With Other Creatures, and Use Your Eyes Like a Hawk
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Sandifer: Why a Bloody End to Democracy in America Is Not Only Likely But Maybe Even Inevitable
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Andrew Hodges on Alan Turing and Why One of the 20th Century's Most Iconic Figures Remains So Relevant in the 21st Century
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Chris Miller: Is It Possible That the Russians Are Now Winning the War in Ukraine?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Margaret Mitchell: Can Big Tech Be Reformed to Make It More Ethically Responsible In Its Development of Artificial Intelligence?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Robert Pearl: How the Seemingly Parallel Pandemics of Covid, Anxiety, and Gun Violence Are All Part of the Same Existential Crisis of American Healthcare
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Debora Spar: How Social Media Is Killing Romantic Love and How Smart Machines Might Enable Us to Love Again
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Baynard Woods: How a White Racist "Totalitarian" System Has Permeated All of American History and Why Reparations Might Be Its Only Fix
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Emma Brodie on Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, a Love Affair So Melodic That It Had to Be Transformed Into Fiction
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Jamie Bartlett on the Biggest Crypto Scam of All and the Heartless Bulgarian Cryptoqueen Behind It
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Paul Thagard: Why Balance Is Essential in Our Vertiginous Age
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Jenny Kleeman: What the End of Roe Might Tell us About the High Tech Future of Bird, Sex, Food, and Death
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Peter Zeihan: Why the End of Globalization Is Just the Beginning of the Chaotic 2020s
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague: Why the News About the Resilience of American Democracy Is Both Very Good and Very Bad
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Steven Jones: What’s the Point of Universities in Our Neo-Liberal Age of Radical Inequality and Fake News?
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Kate Mangino: Why Boys, As Much as Girls, Benefit from Gender Equality At Home
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Katherine Angel on One More Pro-Abortion Argument: Why Girls Need to Take Sexual Risks If They Are To Grow Up to Become Women
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Alison Fairbrother on the Catch Within the Catch: How to Write a Feminist Novel About a Complicated Dad
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Ben Tarnoff: Why Fixing the Internet Requires Political Struggle Rather Than Technological Innovation
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Nelly Lahoud: Remembering Osama Bin Laden: Monster, Family Man, or Misguided Genius?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Dr. Natalie Petouhoff: Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Lyndsie Bourgon: Why the Morality of Tree Stealing Is Not As Simple as Many Traditional Environmentalists Would Like to Think
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Martin Puchner: How to Fix the Environment? A Four-Thousand-Year-Old Reading List for Confronting Our Climate Emergency
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Dan McCrum on How to Spot a Fraud: Never Trust Anything That Sounds Too Good to Be True
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Dan Hampton: Why the World Owes America a Great Debt For Its Participation in the Second World War
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Azeem Azhar: Why, In an Age of Exponential Technological Change, Does So Little Seem to Change in Politics?
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Lisa Lewis: Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Mark Lee Gardner: Rather Than Jefferson or Washington, Should Americans Be Celebrating Indigenous Leaders Like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull As Their Greatest Historical Figures?
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Chris Stokel-Walker on a Digital Brave New World: Are We Entertaining Ourselves to Death on TikTok?
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Gian Volpicelli on the Crypto-Crash and Why the Party Might Finally Be Over
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Stephen Wertheim: Why Joe Biden Should Be Supporting Sovereignty and Not Democracy in Ukraine
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Bob Keefe: Can American Capitalism Really Be an Ally in the War Against Climate Change?
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Introducing Intelligence Squared US
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Britt Halvorson: How to Reimagine White Supremacy in the Heartland of the American Midwest
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Garrett Graff: How Are Watergate and the January 6th Insurrection Similar? Nixon and Trump's Shared Paranoia and Isolation From the Outside World
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Emma Jacobs: How Do We Define Adulthood in a Time When We’ve Created a Cult of Childhood?
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Ewen Spencer on What Writers and Photographers Have in Common
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Frank Smyth: Why the Next Three Years Could Be the Most Violent in American History Since Reconstruction
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Juan Gonzalez: The Paradoxical History of Latinos in America
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Nick Seabrook: How Gerrymandering Is Killing American Democracy
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström: No, Sweden Isn’t Perfect: On Racism, Xenophobia, and Not Even Feeding Your Own Guests
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jennifer Senior: How America's Rasputin, Steve Bannon, Is Simultaneously Clubbable and a Mortal Threat to the Republic
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Ethan Lou: Is Today’s Crypto Crash Terminal or Just Another Chapter in Its Inevitable Takeover of Our Financial System?
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Christopher Leonard: How Today’s Inflationary Crisis is Likely to Further Inflame Our Democratic Crisis
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Simon Kuper: What Political Lessons Can We Learn From a Well-Run Football Club Like FC Barcelona?
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Oliver Bullough: How Britain Became the Jeeves of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats, and Criminals
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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James Kirchick on the Hidden History of Gay Washington
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Nabil Ayers: Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Rebekah Caruthers: How We Can Use the January 6th Insurrection to Create a More Perfect American Democracy
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Gene Andrew Jarrett on Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Caged Bird That Sang
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Nicole Eustace: What the Murder of an Indigenous American in 1722 Tells Us About the Dark Origins of the United States
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Chloe Maxmin: Why the Democrats Need to Start Listening to Rural America
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Gary Shapiro on How Both Political Parties Are Undermining America’s Greatest Strength: Innovation
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Charlie Robertson on Curing Global Poverty: More Education, More Electricity
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Nandita Dinesh: How Brechtian Theater Can Help Americans Talk to One Another Again
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Note to Elon Musk: Stop Wasting Your Billions on Twitter and Invest Them in Curing Cancer
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Ian Morris: Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Jefferson Morley: Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Samit Basu: Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Abi Morgan: How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Victoria Finlay on Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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John Allore: How a Brother’s Determination to Find His Sister’s Killer Lead Him to a Canadian Serial Killer
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Ada Ferrer: How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Bo Seo: How Good Debate Can Save Democracy
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Julie Lythcott-Hains: How to Successfully Grow Up and Become an Adult
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Peter Wehner: Why a Post-Trump America Remains Very Sick and How to Improve Its Health
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Kimberly Wolf: Why Fathers Need to Talk Talk Talk to Their Daughters
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Anna Malaika Tubbs: How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Hopwood DePree: What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Aaron Friedberg: Why China, Not Russia, Is Our Greatest Threat And What We Should Do About It
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Sasha Issenberg: What America’s Long Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage Can Teach Us About the Possibility of Gun Control
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Erin Swan: How a First Novel About America’s Vanished Earth Took 6 Years to Write and 30 Years to Plan
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May 31, 2022 |
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Nirit Weiss-Blatt: Why the Techlash Has Gone Too Far
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May 31, 2022 |
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Helene Munson on Hitler's Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?
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May 30, 2022 |
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Kerri Arsenault and Bathsheba Demuth: How to Tell Effective Stories About the Environment
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May 29, 2022 |
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Jon Taffer: Why the Real Power of Conflict Is About Respect Rather Than Violence
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May 28, 2022 |
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Joshua Browder: Should We Celebrate Technology Which Enables the Disruption of Local Government?
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May 27, 2022 |
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Hal Weitzman: Why Delaware Is At the Root of Everything That Is Wrong With America
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May 26, 2022 |
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George Stevens, Jr.: Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.
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May 25, 2022 |
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Dov Seidman: How to Make American Capitalism Moral (Or, At Least, Try To)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Marcus Buckingham: Why Work Sometimes Does, Indeed, Love Us Back
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May 24, 2022 |
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Arthur Grace: Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe
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May 24, 2022 |
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Eboo Patel: Field Notes on How to Build a Diverse Democracy in America
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May 23, 2022 |
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Ousman Umar: I’m the Luckiest Person in the World Because I Have Two Families, One Black and One White
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May 23, 2022 |
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Phil Klay on Rebuilding the American Citizen in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
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May 20, 2022 |
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Mark Esper: The Surrealism of Life as Secretary of Defense in the Trump Regime
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May 19, 2022 |
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Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women’s Dead End Work
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May 18, 2022 |
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Jon Mooallem: How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense
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May 17, 2022 |
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Charlotte Mullins: Finally a History of Art That Includes Female and Non-White Artists
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May 16, 2022 |
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Glenda Gilmore: The Significance of Romare Bearden's Art in the American Canon
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May 16, 2022 |
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Gregg Barak: On the Persistent and Unambiguous Criminality of Donald J. Trump
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May 15, 2022 |
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Maurice Stucke: How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation and How to Fight Back
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May 15, 2022 |
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Francis Fukuyama: Are We At the End of the History of Liberalism?
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May 14, 2022 |
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Andrew Leon Hanna: How the World’s Refugees Are 25 Million Sparks of Innovation and Humanity
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May 14, 2022 |
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Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures
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May 13, 2022 |
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James Zimring: How Math Distorts Our Thinking
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May 12, 2022 |
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Leslie Fenwick: How the Legacy of Jim Crow Still Infects American Schools
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May 11, 2022 |
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Jim Shepard on Why the Covid Pandemic Might Only Be Phase One in the Destruction of the World
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May 11, 2022 |
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Tessa West: How to Identify and Detoxify Jerks at Work
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May 10, 2022 |
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Jo-Ann Mort: How Poets Could Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine
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May 10, 2022 |
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Michael Blanding: Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?
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May 09, 2022 |
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Charles Dellheim: How Jews Made the Art World Modern
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May 09, 2022 |
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Vegard Skirbekk: Why We Need to Bring Down Global Birth Dates and Have Fewer Children
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May 07, 2022 |
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Rowan Hooper: How to Save the World For Just a Trillion Dollars
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May 07, 2022 |
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Levi Vonk: The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border
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May 06, 2022 |
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Nick Marx: Can Conservatives Be Funny?
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May 05, 2022 |
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Danica Roem: Why We Should Judge All Politicians Through the Prism of Authenticity
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May 05, 2022 |
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Sam W. Haynes: How Everyone—Left and Right—Has Misrepresented the History of Texas
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May 04, 2022 |
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Alice Sherwood: Should We Really Want to Reclaim “Reality” in Our Counterfeit World?
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May 04, 2022 |
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Tripp Mickle: How Apple Appears to Have Lost Its Soul in the Post-Steve Jobs Era
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May 04, 2022 |
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Scott Hershovitz: How to Nurture the Philosopher In All Our Kids
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May 04, 2022 |
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John A. List: Why Quitting Good Ideas Is Often a Winning Strategy
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May 03, 2022 |
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John Higgs: What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future
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May 03, 2022 |
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Emily Bingham: How “My Old Kentucky Home” Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America
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May 03, 2022 |
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Sy Montgomery: How Hawks Teach Us a Different Way to Love
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May 02, 2022 |
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Rebecca Schiller: How to Write a Literary Memoir About Neurodivergency
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May 01, 2022 |
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Edward Sullivan: How Authentic Conversation Can Unlock Our Creativity, Our Purpose, and Our Happiness
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Lis Wiehl: Why Robert Hanssen Was America's Most Damaging Spy
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Toni Bentley on George Balanchine, the Man Who Loved Women
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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David Kirkpatrick: From Tragedy to Farce: On the Changing Story of Facebook
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Joel Simon: How the Infodemic Is Making the World Sicker and Less Free
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Richard Overy: Has the Second World War Ended Yet?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Why Free Access Is the Key to Fixing Big Tech Monopolies
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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John Thornhill: What Do Startup Entrepreneurs and Authors Have in Common?
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Mickey Huff: Can We Trust Anything We Read in the Media These Days?
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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C. Fred Bergsten: Why Trump and Biden Are Dangerously Wrong About China
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Introducing Storybound
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Natasha Lunn: Is Talking About Love a Female Thing?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Yascha Mounk on the Paradoxes of American Patriotism in the Black Community
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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David De Jong: Why the Evil Legacy of Nazi Billionaires Remains Very Much Alive in Germany Today
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Matt Richtel: Why Most of Us Are Terrified of Being Creative
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Steven Kotler: Should We Relish a "Post-Human" Future in Which We Will Be Able to Fully Empathize With Trees, Plants, and Other Creatures?
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Joseph Weisberg: The Chilling Similarities Between Bush’s Invasion of Iraq and Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Mary Laura Philpott: Why the Best Non-Fictional Writing Requires the Art of a Fiction Writer
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Charlie Eaton: How Ivory Tower Bankers Are Plundering Our Universities
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Charles Kupchan: Why Putin Might Be Right in Opposing the Growth of NATO
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Christopher Blattman: The Five Reasons Why Putin Went to War in Ukraine
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Christine Emba: SEX SEX SEX: Why We’re Not Having It and Why That’s Bad
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Dan Brooks: How Social Media Might Be Simultaneously Destroying Both Comedy and Morality
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Matthew E. Kahn: Why Going Remote at Work Can Save Both Our Cities and Our Souls
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Mary Ann Sieghart: Why It’s In Everyone’s Interest (Even Men) to Take Women More Seriously
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Victoria Wellman: Is It Ethical to Get a Speechwriter to Write Your Wedding Speech?
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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J. David McSwane: Exposing the COVID Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: Why China, Russia and Iran Aren’t Democracies
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Jeff Rosenthal: Can Only Rich People Afford to Think Big, Chase Dreams, and Build Community?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Beena Ammanath: How AI Can Finally Solve the Problem of Diversity
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