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17/04/2022 - 18:08

In each of these cases, nationalism has powered the rise of illiberalism. Illiberal leaders, their parties, and their allies have harnessed... →

12/04/2022 - 13:37

The spectrum of possible outcomes ranges from a volatile new cold or hot war involving the United States, Russia, and China; to a frozen... →

05/04/2022 - 17:11

Many autistic people are unable to filter their experiences, or that ability to filter is under-developed. The brain processes about... →

29/03/2022 - 16:15

Sam Leith: Liberal is a word that means something very different in Tennessee than it does in Muswell Hill. What exactly are the... →

20/03/2022 - 16:42

I work for the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, a US-based think tank, where it's my job to think about humanity's gravest future... →

13/03/2022 - 15:37

This view posits that some Canaanites differentiated from their neighbors and moved to the central highlands, establishing a very different... →

07/03/2022 - 14:06

But in the 2020s, things are different. My daughter and her friends played a game on their phones while discussing their strategy in a... →

24/02/2022 - 18:03

The disinformation campaign then escalated into what is considered the first cyber-attack against an entire country. The attack, which... →

17/02/2022 - 14:37

Each chapter surveys its subject’s life and work, including generous quotations in Halkin’s own translation. But Halkin has created... →

12/02/2022 - 14:24

One school of thought firmly denies the possibility of change. It argues that the world is a jungle, that the strong prey upon the weak and... →

06/02/2022 - 13:28

Nor are crime and punishment in Hebrew something exceptional. Indeed, they are all too familiar as Israel grapples with its local mafia... →

31/01/2022 - 13:54

The bouncing orange specks could be popcorn dancing on a hot plate. But there's something odd about how they move. Individual kernels spin... →

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