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The West has a moral obligation to defend Ukraine.
Last stated 15 Oct 2026 · a week ago
Holds Jerry Coyne
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Same subject: war
'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting.
Last stated 10 Oct 2025 · a year ago
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Lawrence Freedman
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Same subject: war
A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Branko Milanovic
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Same subject: war
A country whose economy and military are deeply entangled with a dominant neighbor will keep getting stuck with choices that run counter to its own national interests.
Last stated 15 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Henry Farrell
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Same subject: war
A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.
Last stated 27 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Scott Greenfield
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Same subject: war
A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted.
Last stated 31 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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Jack Weatherford
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Same subject: war
A war made round watches fashionable because all military watches were round.
Last stated 23 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Paul Graham
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Same subject: war
After interviewing hundreds of people inside America's secret military and intelligence programs, there is no reason to believe aliens have ever visited Earth.
Last stated 22 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Annie Jacobsen
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Same subject: war
AI companies are already helping to automate and facilitate mass death in wars such as those in Iran, Gaza and Ukraine, so the harm does not need to be speculated about.
Last stated 23 Oct 2026 · yesterday
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Brian Merchant
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Same subject: Europe
A coalition from the US and EU to Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority should take Gaza from Hamas, rebuild it and demilitarise it
Last stated 12 Oct 2023 · 3 years ago
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Yuval Noah Harari
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Same subject: Europe
A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work.
Last stated 7 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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Max Hodak
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Same subject: Europe
A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done.
Last stated 28 Jan 2022 · 5 years ago
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Bret Devereaux
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Same subject: America
A ban on diesel exports would raise overall fuel prices and damage America's energy superpower status.
Last stated 1 Oct 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Alex Epstein
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Same subject: America
A ban on U.S. diesel fuel exports is more likely to raise prices than lower them.
Last stated 23 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Josh Marshall
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Same subject: America
A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely.
Last stated 22 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Jennifer Pahlka
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Same subject: politics
A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.
Last stated 1 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Alice Evans
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Same subject: politics
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 31 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Daniel W. Drezner
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Same subject: politics
A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves
Last stated c. 2000
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Joseph Tussman