https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/target-practice/
Target Practice - The Ideas Letter
In our last issue, Evgeny Morozov traced the ascent of a new oligarch-intellectual class. In Ideas Letter 38, David Klion looks at a class in steep decline:...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-great-reckoning/
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/oligarchs-and-intellectuals/
Oligarchs and Intellectuals - The Ideas Letter
Evgeny Morozov reads a lot more than you and I do. He has spent the last few years sequestered in an untouristed patch of the European continent hoovering up...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/the-politics-of-metaphor/
The Politics of Metaphor - The Ideas Letter
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/fissiparousness/
Fissiparousness - The Ideas Letter
Robert Malley is one of the finest US diplomats of recent decades. His new book Tomorrow Is Yesterday, cowritten with Hussein Agha, is a sober, plaintive and...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/future-forward/
Future Forward - The Ideas Letter
We are honored at The Ideas Letter to feature an interview with the highly regarded Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev by the acclaimed Mexican...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/blueprints/
Blueprints - The Ideas Letter
The porteño Juan Elman is one of Latin America’s sharpest journalists, and we have had the pleasure to feature him twice in our pages. Here Elman takes a...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/frictions/
Frictions - The Ideas Letter
Issue 43 of The Ideas Letter kicks off with the Mexican political theorist Tessy Schlosser, who proffers a measured and critical defense of identity...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/reconceptions/
Reconceptions - The Ideas Letter
Some might call Nicolás Maduro a despot, a thug, a criminal even. But classifying his regime is less clear cut. José Natanson, editor of Le Monde...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/roots-of-the-malaise/
Roots of the Malaise - The Ideas Letter
My old friend, Stephen Kotkin, had the supreme fortune to study as an undergraduate with the historian Christopher Lasch. Lasch was a legendary teacher at the...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/caricatures/
Caricatures - The Ideas Letter
Feliz Año Nuevo. There is a lot to tackle in this issue so let’s jump straight into it. We lead with two very sharp essays that will ruffle some...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/crusaders/
Crusaders - The Ideas Letter
Truth is a casualty of the last century. From the Death of God to the curious disappearance of the human in the Age of AI, truth’s social standing is...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/refractions/
Refractions - The Ideas Letter
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/alternatives/
Alternatives - The Ideas Letter
Historian of political thought Miri Davidson has long focused her research on the relationship between anthropology and the far right. In this highly original...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/under-the-hood/
Under the Hood - The Ideas Letter
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/did-colonization-ever-end/
Did Colonization Ever End? - The Ideas Letter
Despite the formal end of colonial rule, Africa remains trapped in structures of neocolonial domination and elite corruption that continue to undermine genuine...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/persona/
Persona - The Ideas Letter
Will Davies has become one of the finest essayists in the English language on a variety of themes ranging from political economy to political culture. For The...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/shock-and-vlog/
Shock and Vlog - The Ideas Letter
Hatherley examines the burgeoning world of Western “China Influencers,” whose tightly edited vlogs roam through Shenzhen, Shanghai, or Chongqing in search...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/the-age-of-inversion/
The Age of Inversion - The Ideas Letter
I asked the excellent journalist and Columbia professor Keith Gessen, who has long written cogently on the Russian condition, a question. I had been surprised...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/forking-paths/
Forking Paths - The Ideas Letter
Greetings Ideas Letter readers. We are delighted this issue to feature essays by two esteemed Argentine journalists, Mario Santucho and Jordana Timerman, which...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/the-wealth-of-theory/
The Wealth of Theory - The Ideas Letter
Bernard E. Harcourt and Dylan Riley are two of today’s foremost social theorists, Harcourt at Columbia and Riley at Berkeley. We are privileged, in our Issue...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/continental-contradictions/
Continental Contradictions - The Ideas Letter
Latin America is a region marked by divergent political trajectories and deepening internal crises—from Venezuela’s authoritarianism to the spread of...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/another-reckoning-with-china/
Another Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
Wang traces the emergence of multiple generationally distinct “reckonings” with China among different groups: There are the young Americans who encounter...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/new-foundations/
New Foundations - The Ideas Letter
The world today hardly brims with bright spots. Find good news wherever you can. Bangladesh may just be your ticket: After the brutal and kleptocratic Awami...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/foundational-present/
Foundational Presents - The Ideas Letter
Issue 42 of The Ideas Letter begins with a meditation on two recent books of consequence: Peter Beinart’s Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza and...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/returns/
Returns - The Ideas Letter
Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations,” an article and later a book that few liked but many cited, merits revisiting. Hans Kundnani and Srirupa Roy...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/exiles/
Exiles - The Ideas Letter
Leonid Ragozin has long been an unsentimental observer of the Russian political scene. A journalist in exile, Ragozin has an unusual talent for zeroing in on...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-industrial-party-%e5%b7%a5%e4%b8%9a%e5%85%9a/
The Industrial Party - The Ideas Letter
In the US, the MAGA movement has brought to the fore a new kind of social type: the techno-nationalists. Obsessed with the power of artificial intelligence,...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/opportunities/
Opportunities - The Ideas Letter
Greetings, Ideas Letter friends. We are fast approaching our fiftieth issue and will soon publish a hard-copy anthology of a few dozen of our finest pieces. It...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/ethical-provocations/
Ethical Provocations - The Ideas Letter
We lead Issue 33 with a tale about Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, the noted (and notorious) gene-editing technology better known to...
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/imagining-the-present/
Imagining the Present - The Ideas Letter
Ayşe Zarakol is one of the premier historians of international relations. The history and future of world orders is a recurring subject for Zarakol, and her...
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