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authors with the precision of a Swiss watch. Heather Jackson, your insightful editing and incredible cheer-leading has made this book a pleasure to write. Thank you for believing in me! I am honored to be your writer. To the rest of the Crown team, especially those whom I bother...

…xts: A Chinese argument over cold tea can sound like an accusation of murder to a Western ear. Symbolic Communication The earliest recorded permanent human communication is cave painting, dating to 33,000BcE. Written communication emerged in Sumer, the southern part of Mesopota...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Is there no sense of shame in that building? Has the word hypocrisy lost all meaning across the street? Does no one recognize the need for a single, neutral standard of human rights? Have human rights now become the permanent weapon of choice for those who prac...

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…t Eg] Jeffrey Epstein Jefirey E. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitutes at his Palm Beach mansion. (The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office via The New York Times / April 21, 2014) + Related Pe] Gov. Scott signs bills clamping down on sexual predators Go...

presented in the last section, Eberhardt was also interested in the possibility that if people carry this association around in their head, they do so unconsciously, despite explicit avowals that they are not at all racist. And if they carry this association around unconsciously,...

…ING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians tions of regimes that have been sullied by the jailing of dissidents or opposition leaders, the shuttering of media generally because of other strategic concerns or simple neglect, not because lobbyists...

made mistakes, so there are moments in Sex Positive that I wish I could clarify -- but it's not my film. That's why I'm thrilled that you're giving me the first opportunity to address the moments that make me cringe when I see the movie -- and what amazed me is that you nailed mo...

33 in 1966, a position he cleverly exploited after Syria’s defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, after which it was alleged that the regime had had secret dealings with the Jewish state. A “palace coup” inside the leadership brought Assad to power as president in 1970. Th...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 government, but of non-governmental organizations such as the media, the academy and, most important, the citizenry. As I wrote in Rights from Wrongs: This balance is part of our dynamic system of governing, which eschews too much concentration of power. Ameri...

measure of risk, a factor that both juvenile and adult courts should be using to determine their sentencing, especially the individual’s future dangerousness. Individual differences in glucose metabolism, together with relative differences in brain activity, lead to stable diffe...

In our own age, a fundamental conflict lingers as well. This is the struggle between individual liberty and connection. We have to ask a version of Hayek’s question: Are we happier, better off, more justly fulfilled through ceaseless linkage to the fast systems all around us? The...

this has been impossible. There has been no great power with the appetite and the will for such an adventure. But 15 years is not even a generation

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...

like were involved, the unsavory facts were carefully assessed by experienced state prosecutors who aggressively enforce state criminal laws. No one turned a blind eye to potential offenses to the public order. To the contrary, the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office conducted an...