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Ss LAWYERS J hw was a running sweepstakes or office pool for the unhappiest person in the White House. Many had held the title, but one of the most frequent winners was White House counsel Don McGahn. He was a constant target for his boss's belittling, mocking, falsetto-voice m...

capabilities emerge from regular physical processses, which we can trace down to the level of electrons, photons, quarks, and gluons. Evidently, brute matter can get pretty smart. Let me summarize the argument. From two strongly supported hypotheses, we’ve drawn a straightforwar...

…ecessarily dependent on any number of critical nodes whose failure can lead to abrupt — and unpredictable — collapse1. The electric grid, which operates as a series of networks that are defined by geography, is a prime example, says Havlin. “Whenever you have such dependencies i...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians outcome of elections. They need to hold votes to vali- date their rule, but they also recognize the risk involved, as elections remain a potent instrument of democratic renewal even in deeply troubl...

…/article/polish-tv-viewers-turn- off-tune-out-drop-out-poland-kaczynski/. 19. “Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Party Is Rewriting the History of Poland,” Financial Times, March 11, 2016, https://www.ft.com/con- tent/67532c/8-e62d-11e5-a09b-1f8b0d268c39. 20. Ibid. 21. Vanessa Gera, “Polis...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians in Ukraine, the Maidan uprising of 2013-14, forced him to flee to Russia after a bloody crackdown failed to disperse the demonstrators. Among other things, the episode shattered the old political es...

… he signaled his support for majoritarianism, with its disdain for checks and balances and civil society, as opposed to the values of pluralism that are enshrined in liberal democratic practice. The message here is important. For many, illiberalism’s defining feature is intolera...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians up’ the agreement between British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler that resulted in Germany's seizure of parts and eventually all of Czecho- slovakia. This clearly falsified the h...

… ago, Bannon might have been a recognizably modern figure, something of a romantic antihero, an ex-military and up-from-the-working-class guy, striving, through multiple marriages and various careers, to make it, but never finding much comfort in the establishment world, wanting...

 It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household help ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. In sweatshirt, draw-string pants, palm beach s...

ed. From Less Is More: An Anthology of Ancient and Modern Voices

30 The rise and possible fall of the Assad dynasty would provide a perfect illustration of the Khaldunian paradigm under recent postcolonial conditions. Under Ottoman rule the Nusayris were impoverished outsiders struggling on the social margins. In addition to feuding among the...

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...

…n-person experience has much higher bandwidth than even a DVD. It may even have infinite bandwidth. Physicists argue whether space-time is quantized but, for now, we will look at what would be needed to reproduce the experience faithfully on modern digital recording equipment. D...