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The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future.
Catherine Tumber

Two books even for grounding liberal politics in a distinctively “progressive religion.”

Catherine Tumber

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Peter Singer’s case for effective altruism brings to mind Andrew Carnegie, or, rather, the well-known criticism, which Carnegie himself anticipated, that the steel magnate’s philanthropic largesse was made possible by squeezing value...
Catherine Tumber
In contrast with the technological fatalism of recent books on the state of U.S. manufacturing—Vaclav Smil’s Made in the U.S.A. (2013) and Andrew McAfee and Erik Bryjolfsson’s The Second Machine Age (2014) come to mind—the Production...
Catherine Tumber

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