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especially those whose voices might disturb the peace a€" has always been that things will go better for them if they keep their mouths shut. In my forthcoming book about the political consequences of womend€™s rage, I write about a 16th-century torture device called the brank, w...

…gency Palestine and Statehood: An historical overview Abdullah Abueid 24/08/2011 -- Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem and ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the Mandate of...

I’m writing about the Iran deal. So far have only sent a form paragraph in response to requests. Below. Noam On Iran, as usual, I’m a gloomy contrarian. I’m glad the treaty was signed, and it’s kind of fun to watch the Republican lunatics shrieking hysterically as they try to k...

Chris Anderson’s company, 3DR, helped start the modern drone industry and now focuses on drone data software. He got his start building an open-source aerial robotics community called DIY Drones, and undertook some ill-advised early experiments, such as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley...

si he was a 23-year-old political operative. They have lunch once a week, where sometimes—as on the details of Af-Pak escalation— they cordially disagree but know the president will decide anyway. Donilon believes you have to go back to George H. W. Bush’s era to find such “alig...

…apidly into crises of strategy. One hot battlefield instant - an explosion under an armorless truck, say - could freeze the operations of a billion-dollar division. Nearly everyone begins to ask, sometimes out loud: Why did that happen? Followed pretty quickly by: What the hell a...

there are different military groups, using terrorist methods against the government forces, as well as against each other. The most prominent of them, the Free Syrian Army, is not strong enough to defeat Assad’s forces. Even if the US provides the FSA with light weapons, this opp...

Friday, February 24th Mid-day, I arrive at The Beverly Hills Hotel, where I have stayed for thirty years. As the housekeepers unpack my bags upstairs I peek into the Polo Lounge and find icon Warren Beatty in a booth. He motions me over to meet an Egyptian fashion editor from Ca...

I’m not justifying Vladimir Putin and the kleptocracy that he represents, because he eventually is the state capitalist of kleptocracy. However, we the Judeo-Christian West really have to look at what he’s talking about as far as traditionalism goes — particularly the sense of wh...

Freedom House to economic mismanagement and political dishones- ty. It was devastated by the 2010 election results, and has failed to reemerge as a viable opposition entity. In Poland, the center-right Civic Platform had been the dominant force until the 2015 PiS victory. It ach...

e Connectivity: Human neurons typically support several hundred connections (synapses). Moreover, the complex pattern of these connections is very meaningful. (See our next point.) Computer units typically make only a handful of connections, in regular, fixed patterns. e Develop...

superintelligence. Whither Wiener Wiener noted that exponential technological progress is a relatively modern phenomenon and not all of itis good. He regarded atomic weapons and the development of missiles with nuclear warheads as a recipe for the suicide of the human species....

…eligion -- I'm Unitarian, he’s a Baha'i convert. He lived one summer in Chicago, and we discovered that we'd shopped at the same bookstores. One night, we found ourselves in the same nightclub. Using a cigarette as an excuse to go outside, we abandoned the music and talked for h...

…ever make a dime. He is an angry loser who was married to Annette Tapert years ago.(She now is married to Joe Allen and they live near you in PB) Annette left him because there was no bread on the table and he is nasty. What should I do? Call him or not? Peg n--- Original Messa...