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Yasmin Solomonescu
Have the courage of your convictions. Be a person of conviction. Carry conviction. Stand tall in your conviction. As these idioms attest, we have a strong cultural conviction that conviction is a virtue and that anything less betrays weakness—or as W. B. Yeats put it more dramatically, that civilization itself is at stake when “[t]he […]
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Natalia I. Kucirkova
For years, the EdTech ecosystem has been moving towards greater maturity. Researchers are producing stronger evidence about what supports learning. Governments are formalising procurement and demanding greater accountability. Educators are asking harder questions about educational value. Investors and philanthropies are increasingly recognising that scale alone is not impact. For the first time, the scientific community, […]
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Jesse Mirotznik
In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
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Cass R. Sunstein
Can money buy happiness? What is the value of things? How do people measure that value, whether we are speaking of consumer products, health, activities, or time? Free markets have a simple answer: willingness to pay (WTP). The value of a cell phone, a pencil, or a puppy is people’s WTP to pay for it. […]
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Randall S. Abate
“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing frequency in my climate governance lectures. It usually comes from a disillusioned student struggling to process new developments about climate science projections or climate […]
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Michael C. Zeller
What can be done to counter far-right social forces? These movements, whether attacking foundational liberal tenets of society (often called ‘radical right’) or attacking democratic systems and norms (‘extreme right), present a serious challenge to liberal democracies across Europe. Understanding how to effectively counter them is critical for safeguarding open societies, protecting vulnerable groups, and […]
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Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Every few years, hope briefly returns to the Middle East. Negotiators meet behind closed doors, world leaders speak of a historic opportunity, and commentators predict that peace may finally be within reach. Then the talks collapse, violence resumes, and another generation grows up believing that the conflict is simply irresolvable. Must it always be this […]
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Jeremy J. Smith
Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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Yasmin Solomonescu
Have the courage of your convictions. Be a person of conviction. Carry conviction. Stand tall in your conviction. As these idioms attest, we have a strong cultural conviction that conviction is a virtue and that anything less betrays weakness—or as W. B. Yeats put it more dramatically, that civilization itself is at stake when “[t]he […]
Read More
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Natalia I. Kucirkova
For years, the EdTech ecosystem has been moving towards greater maturity. Researchers are producing stronger evidence about what supports learning. Governments are formalising procurement and demanding greater accountability. Educators are asking harder questions about educational value. Investors and philanthropies are increasingly recognising that scale alone is not impact. For the first time, the scientific community, […]
Read More
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Jesse Mirotznik
In a moment, I’m going to tell you about my book. But before I do that, I’d like to ask you to perform a quick intellectual exercise: think of something that, in your view, is really terrible. It could be a movie, or a song, or a political outlook, or even a person-as long as […]
Read More
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Cass R. Sunstein
Can money buy happiness? What is the value of things? How do people measure that value, whether we are speaking of consumer products, health, activities, or time? Free markets have a simple answer: willingness to pay (WTP). The value of a cell phone, a pencil, or a puppy is people’s WTP to pay for it. […]
Read More
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Randall S. Abate
“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing frequency in my climate governance lectures. It usually comes from a disillusioned student struggling to process new developments about climate science projections or climate […]
Read More
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Michael C. Zeller
What can be done to counter far-right social forces? These movements, whether attacking foundational liberal tenets of society (often called ‘radical right’) or attacking democratic systems and norms (‘extreme right), present a serious challenge to liberal democracies across Europe. Understanding how to effectively counter them is critical for safeguarding open societies, protecting vulnerable groups, and […]
Read More
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Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Every few years, hope briefly returns to the Middle East. Negotiators meet behind closed doors, world leaders speak of a historic opportunity, and commentators predict that peace may finally be within reach. Then the talks collapse, violence resumes, and another generation grows up believing that the conflict is simply irresolvable. Must it always be this […]
Read More
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Jeremy J. Smith
Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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