President Obama and Self-deception All of us are vulnerable to deceit and self-deception. Deception of parents by children actually begins in the womb, when they manipulate the mother chemically into providing greater investment than is in her best interests. It continues at six...
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no contradiction. Indeed, China is now experiencing its own cultural renaissance, fueled by its new affluence. The duality of the Chinese story is reflected in the West's schizophrenic response to it. The Nixon administration eagerly sought better relations with China under Mao,...
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possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...
/ BARAK / 93 The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have changed that. Even though Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a...
36 infelicitously calls “townterviews,” a combination of university town meeting and television interview featuring a group of effusive local journalists, students, and faculty. The format allows her to promote civil society and human rights without getting in the face of the co...
…sions of such regimes can be explained by rational choice economic theory. In other words, if they want to attract international capital and participate in the world economy, they are going to have to break with their ideological affinities. But that reasoning ignores a hard fact...
21 biggest mistake of his presidency was doing nothing to prevent genocide in Rwanda. Hillary’s personal connection to Sarkozy helped cement the coalition. In 2010, Sarkozy had gallantly steadied her after a shoe had come off her foot as she climbed the stone steps of the Elysé...
…rs, affecting the information available to global audiences. Chinese censorship practices should be challenged at international forums and in bilateral meetings. Demo- cratic governments should speak out when their own academics, artists, media companies, and corpora- tions are...
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Price stability can matter. The United States has managed to avoid double-digit inflation since the Volker reforms of the 1980s. But the danger remains. Modigliani was right to worry. A law making real dollars legal tender might prompt better measurements of inflation. Many eco...
Deep Thought 17 de Fermat, Pierre 75 Dell 307 democracy Arab world 82 De Morgan, Augustus 350 Demotic 89 dendrites 98 Dennett, Daniel xi, 46, 133, 260, 351 Der Spiegel 34 Descartes 70 design tradeoff 311 determined universe 207 determinism 41-46, xi, 315, 316, 351 free will and 3...
man, in response to simple or complex historical causes, profoundly changes his technical equipment.”25 Control of water in those ancient ages and control of information in our own are not so different. We are in the midst, after all, of a change in our own “technical equipment....
…nt for ignoring the erosion of Russian democracy. Russia has also continued to stymie U.S. efforts to impose tough international sanctions on Iran and Syria. Obama seemed to have made friends with President Dmitry Medvedev
…egimes have generally maintained some illusion of pluralism as one of their main concessions to the post-Cold War international or- der, a number of governments have been less attentive to this priority, drifting back toward the electoral tactics, and lopsided results, of 20th-c...