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04/03/2017 - 13:32

As I was growing up in England in the latter half of the 20th century, the concept of intelligence loomed large. It was aspired to, debated... →

24/02/2017 - 15:08

Apart from the small and ethnically circumscribed exception of the Jews, the ancient world had never known an exclusivist faith, so the... →

19/02/2017 - 15:31

As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →

12/02/2017 - 13:32

The only job of government in a free market should be to protect individuals: our freedoms, our ability to go out into the world and do... →

06/02/2017 - 12:59

What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of... →

30/01/2017 - 18:19

In the late 19th century, western imperial Russia was home to nearly 5 million Jews. For generations, life in the shtetls was plagued by... →

28/01/2017 - 18:01

Основы демократии О демократии написано много книг и статей, защищено диссертаций. Дефиниция «демократия» существует много веков. В... →

25/01/2017 - 15:00

Fascism is commonly associated with German Nazi and Italian regimes that came to power after World War I, though several other countries... →

20/01/2017 - 17:55

But Shahak Shapira, an Israeli-German writer, took issue with the setting: the Berlin Holocaust memorial. Mr Shapira copied 12 selfies... →

15/01/2017 - 13:19

A demographic shift in the late 18th century meant socializing took precedence over studying Thanks to everything from pop... →

08/01/2017 - 16:47

“Three idiots in a Paris play yard tell me: ‘You don’t get to have Christmas presents because you’re a dirty Jew and Jews killed Jesus.’... →

03/01/2017 - 17:44

History shows that cities have tended to embrace international opportunities in waves and cycles. They rarely break out into global... →

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