Trotsky famously rejected the possibility of socialism in one country. What about in one city? Successful social democratic ...
Respondents resist Ypi’s analysis: people don’t always migrate out of need; a vice grip on defining who belongs need not be a ...
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Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...
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In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...
This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...
On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...
In 1947 Julian Huxley, English evolutionary theorist and director-general of UNESCO, wrote Mohandas Gandhi to ask him to contribute an essay to a collection of philosophical reflections on human ...
At its core, the personal data economy of the twenty-first century presents a question of power. Today there is a new rush to extract and exploit a previously untapped asset. The financial rewards ...
This is not the dystopia we were promised. We are not learning to love Big Brother, who lives, if he lives at all, on a cluster of server farms, cooled by environmentally friendly technologies. Nor ...
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