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Guilty Sources, Innocent Truths

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How the Water Flows A message arrived recently in a group I’ve been part of for years — people doing serious, unglamorous work on land rights, monetary reform, the mechanics of power. Someone had shared a publication. Someone else objected, forcefully: the editor holds views I find indefensible, the paper has carried content that is … Read more

Who Benefits From Your Hatred?

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There is something almost unbearable about watching people celebrate the death of other people’s children. Yet across the world, on every side of every current conflict, that is what is happening — on screens, in comment sections, in living rooms. People who would describe themselves as decent, compassionate human beings are finding themselves flooded with … Read more