The article draws on Brenner’s books World of Chance, Force of Finance and series of recent articles about higher education, antisemitism, and the Middle East.
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Jun 27, 2024The seventeenth century playwright had suggestions for what to do with young people who get lost in pretentious ideas and pursuits. -
Apr 16, 2024Mr. Kahneman and Mr. Tversky (the first died recently, the second in 1996) started working together in 1969. They, together with Richard Thaler, claimed to have stumbled on a new... -
Apr 1, 2024The investigation of what went wrong in Israel’s army and government will start only after the war in Gaza is over, but it is already known that there was -
Mar 13, 2024It is a strange springtime in 2024 Paris. The events celebrating International Women’s Day, March 8, started the evening before with a strange -
Mar 5, 2024George Bernard Shaw, of Pygmalion/My Fair Lady fame, raised the question: “Have you ever wondered why I am a communist?” His answer: “Well, it is largely -
Feb 13, 2024There are 8 billion people roaming the planet, up from 1 billion a century ago and 4 billion since 1980. They are more mobile than ever before with
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Jan 25, 2024The last of the 24 books included in the Old Testament, the Book of Esther, takes place in Persia, roughly today’s Iran. It is surprisingly topical
