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Olivier Roy showed, for instance, that clan identities preceded ethnonational identities in Central Asia and…

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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

Palestinian-Arab-Muslim population that had lived in villages and worked the land for centuries, only to be displaced by the Zionist invaders, is simply inconsistent with the recorded demographic data gathered not by the Jews or Zionists but rather by the local authorities themselves. J.

Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel

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Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Only the best researchers in a field actually make progress, and the best researchers are already in a field, and probably couldn’t be kept out of the field with barbed wire and attack dogs. If you expand a field, you will get a bunch of merely competent careerists who treat it as a 9-to-5 job. A field of 5 truly inspired geniuses and 5 competent c... See more

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?

Daniel Cahn

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The small-world networks found everywhere, described in the Watts-Strogatz paper, have an intriguing feature. They are both unusually robust and unusually fragile. They are robust against random attacks or random failures. Which is why random server outages, for example, have little effect on internet traffic. But they are especially vulnerable to

Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Andy Matuschak

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The orthodox Marxist notion2 that the Jews – as an economic agent – perform a distinctive function within a system designed for the extraction of surplus value has been replaced by the anticolonialist notion that the Jews – as a national collective – are integral to the maintenance of American hegemony on a global level.3 Accordingly, there has bee

Ben Cohen • Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism (The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA) / Studies ... zum Antisemitismus Book 4)