Then there is the outside world pressed to the glass, appalled and titillated by the monster inside the big house—a kind of Boo Radley of the Upper East Side. I have taken friends by the Epstein mansion, and the reaction to its other-worldly size in Manhattan is almost always the...
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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...
Article 4. Foreign Policy Syria: Too Big to Fail? Aaron David Miller MAY 12, 2011 -- If you're a bit confused about U.S. President Barack Obama's passivity in the face of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad's brutal repression of domestic opposition, don't be. Syria isn't Libya...
reforms in the name of “nation building.” Yet the newly-installed regimes owed their existence to denying freedoms that would rally dissidents to overthrow them. So the democratization America encouraged was doomed from the start. Then came the “abandon.” Time and time again, wh...
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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...
The Department also objects to the new paragraph (11), which lists as a criterion for ascertaining whether the government in question has made “serious and sustained” efforts to eliminate trafficking “[w]hether the government has made serious and sustained efforts to reduce deman...
So we should say it coldly: We have, as of yet, no strategy. We have no shared picture of the world as it might be. You. Me. Our leaders. None of us. And the experience of other, fast-collapsed empires should way on us. “The struggle to survive,” the historian John Darwin has wri...
ceremony in New York City on May 7. "In a time when this country's highest powers have taken it as their business to demean the work of journalists, it is particularly significant for us to honor those who have taken up the tools of journalism to challenge corrupt power wherever...
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...
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians Third, 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 practic...
TECH PROPHECY AND THE UNDERAPPRECIATED CAUSAL POWER OF IDEAS Steven Pinker Steven Pinker, a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social...
division between top and bottom and do so in a consistent way), then we can keep score with a random looking binary series such as 11001001010.... that describes the sequence of rotations. The advantage that accrues by doing so is that this coin flip counting eliminates details i...
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...
17 April, 2011 Article 1. Wall Street Journal The New Cold War Bill Spindle and Margaret Coker Article 2. The New York Post The storm in Syria Amir Taheri Article 3. The American Interest Political Order in Egypt Francis Fukuyama Article 4. NYT The Budget Debate, Revealed Rich...