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China is not ancient
It's old, but not superlatively old, and some parts are very new.
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Why is Sabrina Carpenter unattractive?
What on Earth is going on between man-Twitter and woman-Twitter?
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Tariffs & the neoliberal consensus
Part of a cross-topic series
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Why "The Great Gatsby" isn't all that great
It's a great piece of genre fiction - but not a true great classic. And it's not alone.
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The phantom of the lazy genius
Why the relationship between intelligence and success is stronger than myth makes it
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The decline and fall of the British imperial navy
A case study in incumbency and global economic dominance
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The recipe for a city
Social technology or geographic inevitability?
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