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Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello

Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.

Helen Pluckrose

31 Jan 2025 · 17 min read

Karl Popper in his 30s. A black and white port

The Open Society and Its New Enemies

What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.

Matt Johnson

29 Jan 2025 · 27 min read

Pro-Israel protesters with red posters asking WHERE ARE YOU RED CROSS?

Hamas and the Red Cross

What remains of the ICRC’s ostensible commitment to “neutrality, impartiality and independence” has been destroyed by the Gaza war.

Gerald M. Steinberg

29 Jan 2025 · 9 min read

The red REDnote app on a phone with Chinese currency in the background.

REDnote and the TikTok Refugees

If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.

Aaron Sarin

28 Jan 2025 · 6 min read

A young mother holding her baby. Both have dark skin.

The Life and Death of a Medical Study

A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.

Stewart Justman

27 Jan 2025 · 9 min read

The Hard and Soft New Right

In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.

John Lloyd

27 Jan 2025 · 12 min read

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Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello

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Hamas and the Red Cross

REDnote and the TikTok Refugees

The Life and Death of a Medical Study

The Hard and Soft New Right

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