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What is it about humans that makes democratic norms stick? What are the traits that facilitate honesty and transparency in administration at the highest levels?
Quebec briefly played host this summer to a theatrical production described by one prominent artist as “reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows.”
Boycotts, de-platforming and witch hunts do “succeed” in the narrow sense that they can ruin lives. But they don’t change anyone’s privately held opinions.
Britain has produced a Brexit debate that is utterly dry, sterile, and completely lacking in imagination.
More than anywhere else, hope exists in environmental restoration and a healthy international credit.
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.
Societies the world over have had to adapt to high rates of infant and child mortality, developing beliefs and social traditions to mitigate the impact of seeing so many of their offspring die
Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.
A better strategy would be for the American Left to celebrate Jefferson and his progressive legacy, just as their forebears once did.
Unfabling the East is a brilliant new book by Jürgen Osterhammel that goes back to the original sources, and carefully reconstructs the evolution of European views of Asia.
This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,” said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation.
Enlightenment, it is nearly impossible to find a human society that did not, at least at times, practice slavery and engage in barbarous acts of conquest and colonization.
Several Stanford University campus groups began protesting a free speech initiative that seemed designed to stir up controversy and privilege right-wing voices.
