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Paradise was as real to us as a memory—and even though it wasn’t something concrete, our minds were already there in it.
This is a dimension where knowledge of the world—that same prior knowledge that needs activating—is the last thing that it would occur to anyone to actually teach children in schools.
Before a youth makes the decision to murder, before the gun is stashed in his backpack, before his state of mental health is so deteriorated that he commits the unthinkable, what has happened to him?
Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks.
Epstein’s crimes present an opportunity to consider larger historical, anthropological, cultural lessons about the seemingly endless, whack-a-mole reappearance of men with his obsessions.
On June 29, the New York Times published an essay entitled “I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids,” in which lawyer and law professor Lara Bazelon wrote movingly about her professional life, how much personal satisfaction she derives from it, and how it gives meaning to her days. In
Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all.
NATO provided an institutional framework that enabled the signatories of the treaty to respond collectively, thereby pooling the risk.
It is time for conservatism to fully embrace a prudential, restrained approach to foreign policy.
National conservatives are much more willing to question the efficacy and desirability of markets in allocating a nation’s resources.
psychological scientists recognize unwarranted causal inferences when evaluating others’ research but miss it in their own, perhaps because of ideological and self-serving biases.
The rise of social media means that a limited number of academics, industry bodies or professional groups can promote almost any agenda, however obtuse, gain slightly wider support online, and create the appearance of significant authoritative status.
The theory of intersectionality, now widely embraced by self-described feminist activists, maintains that non-whites, women, and LGBT individuals face systemic oppression whose scope increases according to the number of minority statuses a person holds.
William Edwards frames the quarrel as an argument between thinkers who believe in free will
To a modern research scientist, all of this will seem like common sense, and such principles now are taught even in some undergraduate courses.