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Einstein in Bohemia
All Roads Lead from Prague

A new book by Michael Gordin shows how 16 months in Prague formed a young Albert Einstein—and the shape of science, politics, and intellectual history to come.

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Innovation and Disruption
Universal Basic Income: Does It Work?

Is UBI an idea whose time has come, or just a populist gimmick? With automation set to disrupt millions of jobs over the next decade, the stakes of answering that question have never been higher.

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illiberalism rising
Democracy’s Gravediggers

There are lessons to be learned for the United States in studying democratic decline abroad, but it’s also easy to take the comparisons too far.

Alternative Facts
The Etiology of Faked News

How technology supercharged the spread of disinformation, and what we can do about it.

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Ideology
The New-Old Fatalism

The idea of historical inevitability just won’t die. But there was nothing unavoidable about our current political crisis.

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European Futures
Fifty Shades of Czech Populism

This year’s Czech elections prove that politically disruptive populism does not line up exclusively with extreme right-wing ideologies.

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Spies and Lies
Have You Gotten Over Your Father Yet?

A new biography of John le Carré could have told us so much more than it does.

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2016 And Beyond
Condemned to Populism

The erasure of historical memory has a high price.

History Misused
The Malthusian Holocaust

Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth fails to convince in its reinterpretation of the Holocaust, and its forecast of the next one.

To Havel and Havel Not
Václav, We Never Knew Ye

Whether they like it or not, the Czechs are the nation of Havel. What they need to work out, with the help of biographies like Michael Žantovský’s, is what that means.

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