Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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Britain’s embrace of the bomb
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When the CIA messes up
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Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy – The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms
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Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless [to eliminate bad habits]. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.
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Why the “privacy” wars rage on
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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How Emily Wilson made Homer modern
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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The earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
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Teaching myself calculus at sixty-five
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The erasure of Islam from the poetry of Rumi
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How should we think about our different styles of thinking?
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The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal?
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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 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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Ask Kim Kierkegaardashian: Worldly Goods vs. the Greater Good
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Hiroshima (1946)
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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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Stepping into the uncanny, unsettling world of Shen Yun
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The philosopher redefining equality
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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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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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A sociologist examines the “white fragility” that prevents white Americans from confronting racism
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Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath
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The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark
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