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He’s studied apes for 50 years – here’s what most people get wrong.
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Americans say we value free speech, but recent surveys suggest we love the ideal more than practice, a division that will harm more than it protects.
Yale professor Amy Chua on the identity of nations, why hardened tribes end up in civil wars, and why you can’t just replace dictators with democracy.
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This season of Game of Thrones has been especially political, and episode 7 relates to the social and political climate of the U.S. like never before.
As the US prepares for a change in power, Professor Sanford Levinson says dialogue that was formerly bound to people’s inner monologue has been “liberated” into the public space.