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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... →

23/01/2022 - 13:06

This is the latest in a series of high-profile restitutions of Jewish-owned artworks stolen by the Nazis. Thanks to films such as The... →

17/01/2022 - 13:31

With the ascent of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s brand of Islam, Foucault gushed, a new “spiritual politics” was being born. Fans of democratic... →

11/01/2022 - 12:25

“Don’t meet anyone’s eye,” I’d been warned before I left England. “If they ask for your wallet, give it.” By “they,” the people concerned... →

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