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Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. In these videos, Arvind and Sayash address common questions about AI.
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Podcast Karl Marx’s Capital
September 18, 2024
This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy.
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Essay Ungoverning: an unfamiliar name for an unfamiliar danger
September 30, 2024
The idea that those entrusted with responsibility for governing a democracy would intentionally make the state less capable—degrading its ability to collect taxes, to deliver mail, to conduct diplomacy, to prosecute violations of civil rights—is almost unthinkable. We call this “ungoverning.”
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Essay Up from feudalism: the Black American liberal tradition
October 03, 2024
What did it mean to be an enlightened “liberal” in the United States before the twentieth century? What’s race got to do with it?
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Essay Narrative images, sacred places
September 30, 2024
Close inspection of a "kalamkari" shows the work is exemplary of early modern temple paintings, which in form and subject mirror the concentric enclosing walls of the Hindu temple.
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Essay Numbing memories
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For over a quarter century, many millions in the US have captured moments of their daily lives and shared them online, from the mildly amusing and banal to the shocking and painful.
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