Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

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David Deutsch on the Pattern

A world-class physicist makes a shocking claim: across 2,500 years and every kind of society, there has been a recurring moral exception carved out just for Jews--the idea that hurting Jews is, in some sense, legitimate. Most of the time, this doesn't erupt into pogroms. Instead, ...  Show more

Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)

Are we truly characters with agency, or are we just playing out our programming in the great video game of life? Contrary to those in his field who claim that free will is an illusion, neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell insists that we're agents who wield our decision-making mechanism ...  Show more

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