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MAY 21, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: 3 Tools for Turning Fragile States into Inclusive Societies
In Seth Kaplan's new book he identifies three tools for successful development in fragile states: social cohesion, an inclusive ideology, and incentives for elites.
MAY 20, 2014 • Podcast
Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, but in the age of social media this is impossible to do. Online, people discover that ...
MAY 19, 2014 • Podcast
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
In Chinese, the word for ambition is "wild heart" and for millennia individual aspirations were looked down on, as the group always came first. How ...
MAY 19, 2014 • Article
The Long Shadow: David Reynolds on World War I
David Reynolds discusses the different ways the carnage of World War I is memorialized in Europe and its different long-term effects on Western and Eastern ...
MAY 14, 2014 • Podcast
Moral Imagination
David Bromwich draws upon thinkers such as Burke, Lincoln, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to show that it is moral imagination which allows us ...