Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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A personal library too big to get through in a lifetime “isn’t a sign of failure or ignorance,” but rather “a badge of honor.”
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The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul
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Communist robot dreams
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Forging Islamic science
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
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Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries – an essay in pictures
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"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by André Gorz, 1973
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Growing-ups: Living with your parents, single and with no clear career. Is this a failure to grow up or a whole new stage of life?
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Theses on libertarian municipalism
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Truth in stereotypes
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Perversions: Atheists and homosexuals were called perverts once. Why do we still see perversion where no harm is done?
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Chronic - For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
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What is the Muslim world?
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The fishermen and the sea
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Beauteous beasts - Humans have been breeding animals for beauty for centuries. But should we draw the line at genetically modified pets?
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Speaking on behalf of … In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen?
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Voltaire and the Buddha: How the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West
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Going nowhere fast: After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis?
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Punching the clock: An essay on bullshit jobs
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Workers of the world unite on distributed platforms: The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom
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Richard Stallman's Free Software, Free Society essay collection
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"Fuck Neoliberalism" - An academic paper by Simon Springer
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What can Aristotle teach us about happiness?
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Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
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