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- An update on how efforts to control hate speech may be undermining the most foundational of all our freedoms -- the freedom to think and speak one's mind. -- New Hate Speech Laws Threaten Freedom Across the West -- Mar 17
- An excellent and thought provoking essay exploring how the ongoing war in Gaza and the global rise of antisemitism is transforming the lives of Jews in the United States. -- The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending -- Mar 16
- The collection of video clips assembled by somebody who was honestly trying to understand what Palestinians think about the war. -- Israelis must listen to the Palestinians! -- Mar 16
- A thoughtful essay exploring threats to democracy and steps that might be taken to address those threats. -- Will you join the supermajority for constitutional democracy? -- Mar 16
- A small dose of optimism amid today's ever present worries about the future. -- Optimism in a Time of Doomsaying -- Mar 16
- From Jonathan Haidt, his recommendations for protecting children from the insidious effects of the "smart" phone culture. -- End the Phone-based Childhood Now -- Mar 16
- The kind of investigation that we need to make sense of the violence in Gaza. It would, however, have been better if this had come from a credible and genuinely objective international body (which doesn't exist). -- IDF aid convoy catastrophe probe: Deaths occurred from looting crush -- Mar 15
- Amid increasing concern about the war's humanitarian impact, an article that tries to explain the fears that are motivating Israel's actions in the war. -- Longing for Auschwitz -- Mar 14
- Startling statistics about how much energy AI is going to consume and how that is likely to affect our efforts to move away from fossil fuels. -- Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power -- Mar 14
- More on the political implications of the gigantic culture gap that exists between college-educated elites and the working classes. -- The Nonwhite Working Class Bails Out on the Democrats -- Mar 14
- A more academic and scientific exploration of the dynamics that drive polarization -- dynamics that we have to find better ways of limiting. -- The Law of Group Polarization -- Mar 14
- Given the public relations advantage that Hamas gleans from reports of large numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza, it is worth asking hard questions about the accuracy of those numbers. -- How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers -- Mar 13
- As we agonize over the human costs of the war in Gaza, a timely reflection on the human costs of the US invasion of Iraq. -- Iraq’s Twenty Years of Carnage -- Mar 13
- An article offering a vision about how today's diverse, cosmopolitan cities can effectively function despite deep differences. -- Cosmopolis or Bust? -- Mar 13
- A rare and hopeful article about the ways in which AI could be used to increase the trustworthiness of governmental institutions -- with at least one real-world precedent. -- Let AI remake the whole U.S. government (oh, and save the country) -- Mar 13
- A report on a pretty persuasive conservative strategy for limiting inequality from Charles Murray -- one of the first to highlight the class tensions that would give rise to Donald Trump. -- Preach What You Practice: Charles Murray on Our New Class Divide: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 -- Mar 13
- From an Israeli perspective, a window into the information war that may ultimately be decisive in determining the outcome of this conflict.. -- As Israel fights Hamas in Gaza, a brutal war is waged in the media -- Mar 12
- For progressives who can't quite see how anyone could disagree with their worldview, news that they are nowhere near as persuasive as they would like to think. -- The Backlash in Deep-Blue America -- Mar 12
- From those younger than baby boomers, but old enough to have a sense of history, reflections on the successes that we have had in building a more diverse society. -- Rediscovering the Meaning of Diversity: Lessons from Generation X -- Mar 12
- A refresher course for those who may have forgotten (or never knew) how seriously we ought to take the threat of nuclear war. -- An Introduction: It’s Time to Protest Nuclear War Again -- Mar 12
- If you really care about the climate (and you should), you ought to be asking hard questions like this about whether current policies are actually working. -- Is Global Climate Policy Working? -- Mar 12
- From Foreign Affairs, an examination of how terrorist groups are different from other kinds of international actors. -- Hamas’s Asymmetric Advantage -- What Does It Mean to Defeat a Terrorist Group? -- Mar 11
- As we still struggle to deal with the problems of racism, an article that helps us remember what we should have learned from one of the giants of the civil rights era. -- The Prophets: Bayard Rustin -- Mar 11
- From Foreign Affairs, thoughts on what AI is going to do the warfare in our increasingly perilous times. -- The Perilous Coming Age of AI Warfare -- Mar 11
- Reflections on what happens to elites when they view their profession as the central focus of their lives (and how that makes them different from the working classes). -- The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable -- Mar 11