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Learning Sympathy
The success of humanitarian appeals is not a given of human nature. They work because we have come to sympathize with the suffering of others, distant and alien.
Job Openings
Today’s high unemployment isn’t a result of a lack of skilled labor but rather a slow recovery.
Big, Glitzy Marches Are Not Movements
In 1963 and today, the real work happens elsewhere.
Marching (Again) for Jobs and Wages
Today’s mix of economic problems calls for demands that echo those of the 1963 marchers.
Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now
When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?
Round and Round
A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.
Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion?
New research shows that a scientific worldview helps people cope with feelings of powerlessness and the anxieties of mortality.
Empire’s Wasteland
The cause of Camus’s native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.
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