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Abundance Is Not Enough

Almost exactly two hundred years ago, a twenty-year-old Englishman posed himself a pointed question: “Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?” Something within him answered with an u...


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Big Tech’s War on Democracy

On February 27, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the AI company Anthropic would be designated a “Supply-Chain Risk to National Security,” thus preventing its systems from being used for military contracts. The move came in response ...


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Neoliberalism in One Country?

The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order.By Branko MilanovićUniversity of Chicago Press, 280 pages, $30

One of the key questions hanging over the current crisis of international order is whether it is a “Polanyi crisis” or a “Carr crisis.” The phrases refer to the two mid-twentieth century critics o...


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Trump Was Always an Iran Hawk

For more than four decades, Donald Trump has called for invading Iran, seizing its oil, and preventing it from gaining a nuclear weapon. You wouldn’t know this if you listened to some of Trump’s erstwhile supporters. In the wake of his latest attack on Iran, they accuse him of betraying the America First movement. “This isn’t stabbing Trump’s original followers in the back. I...


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Only Religion Can Deliver a ‘Star Trek’ Future

In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi was dining with three colleagues at the nuclear weapons development facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the conversation turned to extraterrestrial life. The topic had been on the public mind since the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, N.M., a few years before. As his colleagues later reported, Fermi asked: Where is everybo...


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