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Breaking Our Addiction to War

Are wars inevitable? War crimes? If we really don’t want wars, it behoves us to get serious about understanding their causes, and choose to radically address them. Otherwise, what’s the point? Feeling a “rush” with folks at political actions only perpetuates our addiction to anti-war rallies, which do nothing to stop wars from occurring.…
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What Occurs If No One Reads Anymore?

No-one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect,” wrote the scholar of literacy Martha Maxwell in 1979. But more and more, educators are finding that the…
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Presidents Have Little Control Over Their Governments

The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries.…
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‘Most destructive arms race in human history’: Zelensky appeals at UN for intervention to stop Russia, after Trump’s statement that Ukraine could…

Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to global leaders to intervene to prevent Russia from leading the world through “the most destructive arms race in human history”, warning that the combination of drone technology and artificial intelligence would end in catastrophe. Speaking to the UN general assembly, the Ukrainian president tried…
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The Four Horsemen of the Western Apocalypse

Europe is plagued by a series of existential crises – all self-inflicted. A dominant therapeutic culture preaches utopian but deadly truisms. These wounds are now in their final stages, destroying the very civilization once conceived as “heaven on earth.” First rider: Radical climate utopianism Global warming hysteria wasn't…
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The Associated Press: Strikes and protests roil France, pitting the streets against Macron and his new prime minister

The disruption gave loud voice to widespread complaints that eight years of leadership by France’s business-friendly president have benefited too few people and hurt too many. Marching with thousands of other protesters in Paris, hospital nurse Aya Touré put her finger on the pulse of many who took to streets across France on…
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