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26/05/2017 - 12:46

I spoke with Harari recently for my podcast, The Ezra Klein Show. To hear our whole conversation, subscribe on iTunes (or... →

19/05/2017 - 13:41

Cohen’s book does not deal with the literary and intellectual works themselves, but rather with the surroundings so vital to their... →

09/05/2017 - 14:48

He said the Wehrmacht’s iconic was a marvel of complex engineering, but too liable to failure, with 50 per cent of all Panzer... →

07/05/2017 - 16:37

Dr. Mehnaz Afridi was about to moderate an interfaith panel at a Muslim women’s conference in November 2006, when a colleague stopped her... →

29/04/2017 - 12:39

We were Methodists and I’d never heard this sort of prediction. But to my grade-school mind, the evidence seemed ironclad, the case closed... →

24/04/2017 - 12:44

Over the past 20 years – from Khaled Kelkal, a leader of a plot to bomb Paris trains in 1995, to the Bataclan killers of 2015 –... →

16/04/2017 - 12:10

Somewhere along the way, though, things went wrong. My protagonist became Generic Old Man: crabby, computer illiterate, grieving for his... →

09/04/2017 - 17:15

I. RUNNING AMOK It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced... →

02/04/2017 - 15:07

Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For... →

25/03/2017 - 20:15

Of course, plenty of thoughtful people argue that the Earth alone contains too much pain and suffering to be the work of a good God. But... →

20/03/2017 - 12:24

Ninety-five years on, the sentiments expressed by Palestinian politician Jamal al-Husseini in his 1922 article in Arab newspaper Al-Sabah... →

12/03/2017 - 16:07

They settled in a small resort town, emptied by the war but beginning to fill again with refugees, mostly foreign Jews. In the summer of... →

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