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The Israeli Left Is Once Again Being Dragged Into a Debate Over Zionism –But the Concept No Longer Means What It Once Did

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During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

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My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

Donna Haraway, one of my favorite professors from my time at UCSC, came up with a list of the four major blows to the human ego: ideas which caught on, undermined our supposed central place in the uni...

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If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer?

Welcome to a rare clip show edition of the Thinking Things newsletter. You can read my rambling preamble, or skip down to this special super-charged selection of thinking things! One reason I maintai...

The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’

Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict for a reluctant audience.

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…

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Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.

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And blowing its credibility in the process.

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