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Why do the worst people rise to power?
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Why do the worst people rise to power? University College London professor Brian Klaas responds.Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c...
Why Activism Leads to So Much Bad Writing
www.theatlantic.com
Art and politics have very different agendas.
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit ❧ Current Affairs
www.currentaffairs.org • 8 min
A new book shows that the same talking points have been recycled for centuries, to oppose every form of progressive change.
Who Gets A Nation?
www.noemamag.com • 13+ min
Faced with novel collective and planetary threats like the climate crisis, the EU’s layered architecture provides a model of international cooperation while still respecting disparate peoples’…
The case for polycrisis as a keyword of our interconnected times
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Is this the word we need to describe unprecedented convergences between ecological, political and economic strife?
Why you should always lie to election pollsters
bigthink.com • 5 min
Adapted from The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk by Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason. Copyright © 2023 Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason. Published…
How ancient civilisations dealt with trauma
www.bbc.com • 12+ min
As the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine continue, there’s deepening concern for the trauma that may come later. But war has been around for millennia. How did our ancestors cope?
Why so much is going wrong at the same time
www.vox.com • 11+ min
Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis?
Inside the Intercontinental in Kabul, the luxury hotel run by the Taliban
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The Intercontinental in Kabul was Afghanistan's first luxury hotel. Once the site of legendary parties, the hotel is now in the hands of the Taliban, and their fighters are supposed to work with…
The illusion of moral decline
www.experimental-history.com • 16+ min
The short version of the paper I just published
In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be…
www.politico.com
What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
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How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.