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09/10/2013 - 13:58

Both of these are good scientific reasons to doubt that the Standard Model is the end of the story when it comes to the laws of physics.... →

03/10/2013 - 14:57

Imagine you are given £100 and told that you can keep it, as long as you give some of it to a stranger. The stranger knows the deal, and... →

01/10/2013 - 12:21

Marx, Freud and Einstein: Good for the Jews? In "How and When I Stopped Being Jewish," Sand asks whether there exists a secular Jewish... →

26/09/2013 - 12:53

The Russian government has repeatedly tried to combat the problem, but to little avail: this includes four reforms prior to 1917, and... →

20/09/2013 - 11:57

There’s just one problem with this brave new condensed world: most urban residents aren’t crazy about it. In the United States and... →

14/09/2013 - 15:46

Only in the past two years has the IDF begun to free itself slightly from the shadow and to adjust some of these longstanding conceptions... →

08/09/2013 - 19:28

Rosen has grown up so much since he wrote the piece, he says, that he doesn’t understand how he wrote it. And he doesn’t have a clear... →

01/09/2013 - 11:49

For many indigenous peoples, even the majority rule most Americans call democracy is problematically coercive, as it results in the... →

27/08/2013 - 17:14

Treating inequality in education as a secondary problem is yet another symptom of the deliberate weakening of public education in favor of... →

22/08/2013 - 11:15

Suppose you are like one of the three people in the story above and you wonder why you should follow the advice of the two economists.... →

17/08/2013 - 12:42

Depending on the contemporary mood, Orwell oscillates from Saint George to George the Seer to George the Sage. What other thinker has been... →

10/08/2013 - 14:33

The celebration of technological values in the Apple story requires a similar response. The technological values promoted by Apple are part... →

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