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Summer reading: "Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap"
Nara Roberta Silva on approval ratings and fiscal conservativism
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Summer reading: "The Self-Orientalization of Israeli Politics"
Assaf David and Arie Dubnov on why “the only democracy in the Middle East” is cozying up to authoritarian regimes
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Summer reading: "Elon Musk’s Cruel Moral Sentiments"
David Lay Williams on what the rich man has yet to learn from his study of the Bible
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June 2025

How to escape surveillance
On walking across borders in Poland, playing banned music in Indonesia, and dancing the Palestinian dabke in New Jersey
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Don't look back at the darkness
The quandary of G. W. Pabst, AI as a tool of resistance, clubbing in Berlin, and more
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Ten observations on the anti-ICE protests ...
... and Trump’s misuse of our military to thwart legal protest
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Who wants to watch robots play football?
We built a bigger brain. Now we have to learn to laugh at it.
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Please praise
Book blurbs, God for perverts, and more
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May 2025

Buy our guns
Now on sale: real gold, the global supply chain, and cookie-cutter world peace
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Blackmailed by the state
Withheld Palestinian revenues, Whitman's crisis, Tolstoy's call to protest, and more
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In case you missed it: Why should ordinary citizens trust unelected experts anymore?
The administrative state, its democratic deficits, and how to fix them in comparative historical perspective
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The disadministrative state
With Mark Frazier, James Miller, Kim Lane Scheppele, Julia Sonnevend, Emmanuel Guerisoli, Dionéia Ferreira, Eduardo Staszowski, Renata Zampronio, Carina…
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