Online scams target some of the most vulnerable and trusting people in society, extracting billions of dollars from millions of victims each year. It’s a lucrative business, and an innovative one, giving rise to increasingly creative and diabolical ways of inducing people to part…
In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin Roosevelt imagined “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms” which he identified…
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John McWhorter has a recent piece in the New York Times in which he discusses the significant and lasting influence of the pathbreaking 1921 show…
During an online art history class on October 6, a lecturer at Hamline University displayed an image of a painting that depicts the Prophet Muhammad…
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If you’re reading this, you know that I have a Substack newsletter. You may even know that all my posts are public—nobody has to pay to access anything…
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With turmoil and controversy continuing to roil Twitter, a number of users and media companies have been exploring alternatives. Among the most…
A few weeks ago, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission decided to withdraw permission for PredictIt to continue operating in the United States, and…
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