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…na under Mao, and when Deng Xiaoping doubled down by opening up the country, the West applauded the change. The United States generously accepted Chinese products into its markets, allowed massive trade surpluses, welcomed China into the World Trade Organization in 2001, and kept...

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2] Nusayris, after their eponymous founder Ibn Nusayr, who lived in Iraq during the ninth century. Taking refuge in the mountains above the port of Latakia, on the coastal strip between modern Lebanon and Turkey, they evolved a highly secretive syncretistic theology containing a...

…ted that Chinese intelligence received from Russia a continuous stream of communications intelligence about the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first cen- turies. Russia’s intelligence resources during this period were for- midable. They included geosynchrono...

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Further Readings for Doesn’t Everybody The Evangelicals, David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1975. Godtalk, Travels in Spiritual America, Brad Gooch, Knopf, N.Y. 2002 The Value of Science, Essential Writings of Henri Poincare’ Stephen Jay Gould, M...

…gn can occur in the arrangements of the ineffable and mysterious formless silence within which we have associated with states of high, but not maximal, in-between entropy. For examples, the Indian Saint, Sri Aurobindo, in the early 20" Century, the Catholic metaphysical anthropol...

violence, like the scale of the industry that produced it, defied anything even the wisest minds could foresee. Eventually the entire world was pulled into the fire. “In the autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes,” the economist John Maynard K...

…oid any suspicion falling on his co-workers at the NSA. Yet, if merely wanted to take sole responsibility for stealing state secrets, he did not need to be the subject of a documentary. He could have simply allowed Greenwald to identify him by name as the source in the stories. T...

34 young. And this is true moving forward. Some men in the White House are on the “society” side; some women in the State Department are on the “government to government” side. And many officials switch sides (and can switch back again) amid the long hours of debate. The most co...

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usually talk about “tactical”, “operational” and “strategic” levels as we watch the gears of history churning away in war and peace. The “tactical” level is the most practical. It’s the choice to use machine guns instead of tanks to secure a street in Kabul, for instance, or to b...

…r for his own car. | felt generally intolerant. In an article in Runners World, | labeled my run’s first global brain state transition, the first second wind. |t energized me with the cool firmness but ready-to- be angry righteousness of modern religious orthodoxy: Orthodox Jews...

…tion on the matter is usually presented as a long-standing and clear "no." The reality is more complicated. The United States has addressed this question six times in both internal memos and briefs filed in litigation. And a review of these documents shows that it is far from cle...

12 ordinary Syrians. A dialogue of the deaf ensued. The Assads’ intense preoccupation with external crises led them to neglect the internal scene. Who would need political freedoms, they no doubt thought, if given the benefits of security and stability? As the regime’s official...