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Freedom House Introduction Modern Authoritarianism: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook As the world’s democracies confront a dangerous internal challenge from populist and nationalist political forces, it is imperative that they recognize the simultaneous external threat presented by m...

whenever states (or state-like institutions) take actions that affect the rights of individuals whether these actions are preventive or reactive in nature. This need may seem obvious

and 4.5 million had watched bear baiting or the filming of bear baiting. Would that have the slightest relevance in your judgment on whether the showing of bear baiting in Boston

pornographic films acquire constitutional immunity from state regulation simply because they are exhibited for consenting adults only…The States have a long-recognized legitimate interest in the quality of life and the total community environment

since a large percentage of teenagers become sexually active at lower ages. Setting the age of consent higher than the norm accords prosecutors enormous discretion to pick and choose whom to prosecute among the many violators. I worked on such a case recently

30 organizations. At present, there are 10.5 million Palestinians, including around 5 millions refugees, scattered in several Middle Eastern countries and other Diaspora states. As for Palestinian Statehood: The UN General Assembly by great majority has recognized the right of...

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skin when it was repeated several times. Columbia University’s Nobelist in the brain sciences, Eric Kandel studied the neural mechanisms of habituation as a primitive, accessible and fundamental example of learning, the association of a nonresponse to a usually evocative stimulus...

/ BARAK / 2 cabinet meeting the day before, by reviving an idea I’d supported under Rabin: to build a security fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it...

…on personal devices is subject to alteration by information-engineers at media corporations and governmental propaganda offices, such that outside a few key positions of power no one really knows what is going on in the world. There is a danger of the growth of domination over ti...

13 believe in all the right ideas, but their countries aren’t ready for the vision they seek to promote. They can help make a revolution but others will, for a time at least, determine the flow of events. If true, then both the realists and the idealists are wrong about the Ara...

Feller, W. (1968) An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications. Wiley. NY. Vol. |., Chapter 3 Fermi, E., Pasta, J., Ulam, S. (1955): Studies of nonlinear problems. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Report # 1940 Fessard, A., Gerard, R.,W. , Konorski, J. (1961) (eds...

Anxiety, Substance Abuse, many sleep disorders such as Nightmare Disorder, etc., in addition to PTSD and Depression). Research shows bi-directional causality between neuropsychiatric disorders and sleep disorders. This is a superb example of how fundamental science breakthroughs...

This need to understand human actions and decisions applies to physical and nonphysical robots alike. If either sort bases its decision about how to act on the assumption that a human will do one thing but the human does something else, the resulting mismatch could be catastrophi...

Forthcoming (August 2011) Future Science edited by Max Brockman, Vintage Press, New York. state to publish online the names and addresses of people owing more than $20,000 in taxes. Judges in various states issue shaming punishments, such as sentencing pickpockets and robbers to...