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Promise and Peril of Things
Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific …
To Catch a Dictator
What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissene Habre, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight bloody …
Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. As a leading figure in the creation of the …
Syria Betrayed
The suffering of Syrian civilians, caught between the government's barrel bombs and chemical weapons and religious fanatics' beheadings and mass killings, shocked the world. Yet …
Self-Improvement
We are obsessed with self-improvement; it's a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless …
Learning to Rule
In the second half of the nineteenth century, local leaders around the Qing empire attempted to rebuild in the aftermath of domestic rebellion and imperialist aggression. At the …
When Good Government Meant Big Government
The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a sudden and …
Politics of Arab Authenticity
By the beginning of the 1970s, the modernizing political and cultural movements that had dominated the postwar Arab world were collapsing. The postcolonial project they had …
Postwar Economic Order
Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar …
Kill the Documentary
Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill …
Antagonistic Cooperation
Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "e;antagonistic cooperation."e; Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one …