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The limited remit and strength of international governance create severe bounds on the ability to provide transnational public goods through voting and deliberation, but the almighty dollar (and yuan) is respected in most corners of the planet. Capital flows and the technology it is invested in shape lives around the world.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The processes of dismantlement, privatization, social segregation, and educational inadequacy are going to accelerate. Why? Because we no longer require schools to deliver shared knowledge or even proper worker training to the broad masses. We require them – and this will increasingly be their role – to separate out and protect the deserving bodies
... See moreAlain Badiou • The True Life
cold-blooded need for control.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
In other words, society should make it worth people’s while to give their
Graham Allison, Ali Wyne, Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger • Lee Kuan Yew
Palestinian nationalism was an international concern, and eventually, it would put Israel on the diplomatic defensive.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
When it comes to the future of our world, we have lost our way in a fundamental manner, and not just on a few details. We must return to principles, but we do not always have good principles to guide us. We have strayed from the ideals of a society based on prosperity and the rights and liberties of the individual, and we do not know how to return
... See moreTyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
“How do you think this interview is going?”
Daniel Gross • Talent
The university is at the heart of both the problem and the solution. It also becomes the center of a political battle.