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Technology was the wonder of our age. It seemed to promise us power, and we took this power for our own. What kind of power was it? We didn’t ask.
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What was really at stake in this election was something closer to the existential: whether this utopian experiment would live on, or needed to be put aside.
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War has settled into my imagination and doesn’t want to leave. Maybe it has always been there.
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The battles of late medieval times have had a long, poisonous afterlife in this part of the world, and there is something ominous about Vijayanagara’s desolate beauty.
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Is a classical worldview premised on social balance compatible with the modern politics of working-class emancipation?
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The earthquakes on February 6th that killed more than 55,000 people in Turkey and Syria and resulted in $105 billion in damage were among the […]
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Last October, the Food and Drug Administration announced a shortage of the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication Adderall, leaving millions who are prescribed the drug scrambling to […]
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If hyperpolitics offers some tentative clues for analyzing the post-2008 epoch in the West, the concept can only be fully grasped as part of a broader chronology of the political forms—from mass politics to post-politics—that ran across the twentieth and 21st centuries.
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