The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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The banality of empathy
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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The philosopher redefining equality
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
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Socrates versus Roger Stone
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The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The charlatan and the gossip
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Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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American exorcism
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Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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Pope vs. pope: How Francis and Benedict’s simmering conflict could split the Catholic Church
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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Why are Americans still uncomfortable with atheism?
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Civilization and its latest discontents
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About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much
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The suffocation of American democracy
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One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia
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Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship
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The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
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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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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
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"What does anger mean for the immigrant?" - What we're talking about when we talk about "political correctness", inclusion, and social justice, Part 1
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What does it mean to die well?
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The other political correctness: America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China
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How to change the course of human history
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
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The humanities are in crisis - Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong.
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The city born in a day: The origin story of Oklahoma City
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Axes of evil. Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.
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Mass authentic
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Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news?
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Axes of evil - Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III
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What is the Muslim world?
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Behemoth, bully, thief: How the English language is taking over the planet
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The free speech panic: How the right concocted a crisis
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The mystery of the millionaire metaphysician
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Language at the End of the World
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Language at the end of the world
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A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family
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Peterson’s complaint
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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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The Zero Meter Diving Team - A story of family, loss, and the Chernobyl disaster
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