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What is Neoliberalism?1
- Economics
- November 6, 2018
Neoliberalism is one of those concepts that changes meaning depending on whom you ask. Whereas the intellectual opponents of capitalism use it to refer to the political and economic system that emerged in the 1980s and continues to be hegemonic today, classical liberals see it as a vague and empty concept that adds nothing to
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Remembering Jim Jones and the Socialist Ideals He Held 0
- Culture
- November 6, 2018
Nov. 18 will mark 40 years since nearly 1,000 Americans—a majority of them African American—perished in a mass suicide/murder in the Jonestown compound in the jungles of Guyana. Many misconceptions surround this horror, but a new account dispels some common myths. Cult leader Jim Jones is often portrayed as having been a normal fundamentalist Christian
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‘I’ll Never Be the Same’: My Ukrainian Wife’s First Trip to the United States 0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
KYIV, Ukraine—How do you measure America’s greatness? By the size of its economy, or the strength of its military? By the height of its city skylines, or the audacity of the moon landings? Perhaps, by the heroism of the Marines who landed on Iwo Jima, or of the Army soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach?
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The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Even before Justice Anthony Kennedy’s blockbuster announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court, it looked like the 2018 midterms would probably serve a nationalized referendum on Donald Trump. Against the backdrop of the migrant child-detention facilities controversy earlier this summer, and the contentious process to replace Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, the “Second
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The F-Bomb and the Age of Public Crudity 4
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Let’s start with a question: Is anyone other than your correspondent sick of the public use of the “F-word”? Hollywood actors, celebrities, politicians, commentators, bloggers and those who comment on blogs sling the word around like sailors on shore leave. (That simile is probably unfair to sailors.) When I am scouting out the news online every
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Not Too Big to Fail: Why Facebook’s Long Reign May Be Coming to an End 0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Over the last several years, Facebook has gone from facilitating the free flow of information to inhibiting it through incremental censorship and account purges. What began with the ban of Alex Jones last summer has since escalated to include the expulsion of hundreds of additional pages, each political in nature. And as more people become
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