Globalists
by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
themselves were built in the wake of the revolutions of 1848 on the vacant land that had once been the medieval city walls. In his classic study of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Carl Schorske describes how the liberal city government used the Ringstrasse to showcase its vision of social order, building the
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by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
Kingdom. Ranters, Seekers, Diggers, Fifth Monarchists, Quakers, Muggletonians: suddenly the country was blooming with radical sects offering idealistic visions of utopian Christian brotherhood. In his classic study of the English Revolution The World Turned Upside Down, historian Christopher Hill quotes Lawrence Clarkson, leader of the Ranters, who offered a radical interpretation of
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trained on the burghers and their Town Hall, safeguarding an order in which there was a place for religious devotion, clerical authoritarianism, baroque splendour, sound classical studies and the gentle pleasures of the senses. The ancient Bojodurum or Batavis of the Celts, the Romans and the Bavarians is one of the hearts
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
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stoke environmental problems.9 To help achieve critical distance from their everyday office lives, participants could then learn about anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s classic study of time-reckoning practices among Nuer communities in South Sudan.10 Evans-Pritchard made a distinction between Nuer oecological time (concepts of time derived from
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Conference of July 28, 1965, Public Papers of the Presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, vol. 2, pp. 794–803. EPILOGUE 1. George Herring’s now classic study of American involvement in Vietnam provides the most lucid statement of this interpretation. “U.S. involvement in Vietnam was not primarily a result of errors
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communicates all manner of information about the world and the baby’s place in it, including whether the world is safe or dangerous. In one classic study, researchers placed one-year-old infants on a visual cliff. Their mothers were then instructed to make their facial expressions communicate either happiness or fear
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increased risk of traffic accidents, worse schools, poor levels of services, exposure to gang violence, pollution and so on. Sociologist William Julius Wilson, in his classic study of inner-city poverty, refers to poor people in poor neighbourhoods as the ‘truly disadvantaged’.225 Two studies from the USA have shown that residential
Confronting Gun Violence in America
by Thomas Gabor · 12 Sep 2016
even the accidental twitch of a trigger finger is sufficient. Thus, a gun is intrinsically more dangerous than other types of weapons.12 In a classic study conducted in the late 1960s, Franklin Zimring, then a University of Chicago law professor, used an innovative methodology to isolate the impact of the weapon
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file tax returns did not do so.14 Surveys of the general public have shown that most people violate the law at some point. One classic study of 1700 New York City adults without a criminal record revealed that 99 %admitted to at least some lawbreaking.15 Numerous surveys of high school
The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living
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history. This raises the question, what are these painful experiences achieving, and why have these kinds of rituals and group practices persisted over time? A classic study by Harold Gerard and Grover Mathewson from the University of California in 1966 demonstrated how pain may enhance the value of group membership.14 As
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work in private companies, where perceptions of the value of their labor are more influenced by the color of their skin and their gender. A classic study showing the deep persistence of gender bias involved auditions for symphony orchestras. Women musicians were sorely underrepresented in professional orchestras before the introduction of an
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