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… angry Internet postings was an almost obsessive concern over individuals freely submitting to government authority. “Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types,” he wrote on Ars Technica without mentioning that he himself worked for...

…5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Home and Abroad 15 3. The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay 22 4. The Ministry of Truth in Peace and War 29 5. The Rise of ‘Illiberal Democracy’ 35 6. Flacks and Friends 41 7. Bullying the Neighbors: Froze...

…ockman More than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ended with a warning: “we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions…. The hour is very late, and the...

…of science, we are more likely to make appropriate assignments of responsibility, blame, punishment, and future risk to society. To understand evil requires facing our species’ sustained record of atrocities, laying out a variety of cases for inspection. Former Reverend Lawrence...

…en Ideas Festival and the World Economic Forum. Agus has received many honors and awards, including the American Cancer Society Physician Research Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Institute, a CaP CURE Young Investigator Award and the American Cancer Socie...

…ifferent path. Instead, I went along with a group to a nearby cafeteria, where I learned about the New York Rationalist Society. A whole new world of disbelief was opening up to me. That Saturday night I went to their meeting. The emcee was a former circus performer who entertain...

…torical sense (or the capacity for divining quickly the order of rank of the evaluations according to which a people, a society, a human being has lived, the ‘divinatory instinct’ for the relationships of these evaluations, for the relation of the authority of values to the autho...

… Principle.” The mathematical formula he used to demonstrate a grossly uneven but predictable distribution of wealth in society—80% of the wealth and income was produced and possessed by 20% of the population —also applied outside of economics. Indeed, it could be found almost ev...

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…ng. We should encourage them to study!” He accepted that the interests of the kibbutz mattered. But what kind of “model society” would we be creating if we chose to “doom our own children to ignorance, and cut them off from the great forward momentum of history in Israel and the...

…Supreme Court affirms the prosecutor's wide discretion with reference to his political independence. See Krieger v. Law Society of Alta., [2002] 3 S.C.R. 372, para. 32 (Can.) ("The independence of the Attorney-General, in deciding fairly who should be prosecuted, is … a hallmark...

PROPOSAL: Poetry in America for Middle and High School Teachers A. NATURE OF THE REQUEST Poetry in America, a collaboration between Elisa New and Programs in Professional Education (PPE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will produce courses for national and in...

…yone else unhappy with the old regimes—but the driving force remained the more modern segments of Tunisian and Egyptian society. Societies lacking institutions that could accommodate new social actors produced a condition Huntington labeled praetorianism, in which political part...

Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2016 The Fable of Edward Snowden As he seeks a pardon, the NSA thief has told multiple lies about what he stole and his dealings with Russian intelligence. EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN Of all the lies that Edward Snowden has told since his massive theft o...

…lly good bread could be produced, it would not benefit the bakers exclusively, but would be felt equally over the whole society. The bakers would have a small additional profit, the whole society would have bread for the product of somewhat less labor, and all who 1 Principles of...