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The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.

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The Personal Is Philosophical On the first English translation of Wittgenstein’s early private notebooks.

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Nothing stretches our thinking about the mind the way an octopus does.