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29/05/2022 - 11:33

The joke turns, most obviously, on the tension between assimilated Jews and their sectarian counterparts, the same dynamic that inspired... →

22/05/2022 - 18:08

How do I love my cats? Let me count the ways. The clean snap of three-year-old Larry’s jaw as he contemplates me with detached curiosity is... →

15/05/2022 - 13:56

They watched for smoke coming from chimneys, because that might mean a family had hidden flour and was baking bread. They led away farm... →

04/05/2022 - 15:46

Yet despite ample scientific evidence to the contrary, there remains a sizable amount of support for the Flat Earth theory – as well as a... →

28/04/2022 - 13:39

But in the Kremlin, this blowback could in fact be seen as a longstanding domestic goal. After all, the conflict’s... →

17/04/2022 - 18:08

In each of these cases, nationalism has powered the rise of illiberalism. Illiberal leaders, their parties, and their allies have harnessed... →

12/04/2022 - 13:37

The spectrum of possible outcomes ranges from a volatile new cold or hot war involving the United States, Russia, and China; to a frozen... →

05/04/2022 - 17:11

Many autistic people are unable to filter their experiences, or that ability to filter is under-developed. The brain processes about... →

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... →

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