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A far better measure of leaders’ interest in education is the distribution of top universities.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
This analogy at the level of the material base – creating ever more facts on the ground that prolong and intensify business-as-usual – is reflected at the level of superstructure. We keep hearing governments in the West talking about one and a half or two degrees and about a two-state solution, while actually existing processes of investment work ceaselessly to make both goals physically impossible. Talk of two degrees or two states here takes on the character of ideological cover. The parallelism is quite astonishing when one juxtaposes the COP summits with the summits of what was once known as ‘the peace process’.
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Verso
To ask “What ought I to do?” as a philosophical question is to assume that there could be some authoritative answer to that question. If, however, one understands the nature of human action and its place in the world, one will see that there is no such appropriate answer that combines authority with determinateness.
Outside Ethics
Geuss, Raymond.
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