Nothingness (Why is there something rather than nothing?)
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Lincoln's great depression
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Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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The existence of God and the beginning of the universe
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Impossible Worlds
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The Paradox of Fiction
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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Relative student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond
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The shape of Rome
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José Epita Mbomo: The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis
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Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality
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Katrina’s hidden race war
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The limits of argument — why rational debate doesn’t often change minds
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Book review: The Cult Of Smart
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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A sea story
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Being-in-the-room privilege: Elite capture and epistemic deference
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The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
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The erosion of deep literacy
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
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Why military history?
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Fireside Friday: Crisis in the democracies of antiquity
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Iron, how did they make it? Part I, Mining
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How the 1619 Project took over 2020 in the US
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The paradox of suspense
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
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Post-politics and the future of the left
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The school
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Zombies (philosophy)
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
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Fake authenticity
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We don’t know our potential
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The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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Speech acts
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Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
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Redefining “racism”: Against activist lexicography
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The ethics of deep learning AI and the epistemic opacity dilemma
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In praise of idleness
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A neurophilosophy of autonomous weapons and warfare
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The philosophy of cricket
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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Engineers of the soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
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At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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