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Technocracy is the idea that experts should govern. For the common good, presumably. In fact, it's a
We are all familiar with the spread of disinformation on social media platforms such as Facebook, Tw
There's a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated i
Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaign
Ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood a
In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones and psychoanalyst Daniel Pick discuss brainwashing, thought contr
Italy has just held an election in which it appears that a far-right candidate from a post Fascist P
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Eval
From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed
We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agricul
In 1948, the United Nations presented a document outlining human rights for every person in the worl
As we emerge from a period of government-mandated lockdowns and as threats to free speech multiply,
In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where
In Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to
For much of the Cold War the United States had thousands more nuclear weapons than it needed. And it
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