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Staff Picks, Our 15 Best Stories Of 2019

LES ECHOS France’s Yellow Vests And The Problem With Post-Truth Economics Opinion shapers have a habit these days of disregarding facts, be they scientific or economic. Opinions matter, of course, but shouldn’t supersede well-founded knowledge. SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG RoboJudge: When Laws Are Transformed Into Computer Code Laws take time to catch up with reality. Could we […]

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Revisiting The Science Vs. Religion Paradigm

Darwin may have poked a hole in the Christian creation myth. But historically speaking, the relationship between science and religion has been far more nuanced than most people imagine.

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Staff Picks, Our 15 Best Stories Of 2018

LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of “reality-show novels’ and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert the novel as a contemporary art. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG The Real Invisible Threat To Democracy: Poverty Even in economically powerful Germany, poverty threatens the social fabric. And […]

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Thierry Fremaux, Dream Maker And Breaker Of Cannes

Every year, he watches 1,800 films and rejects 1,750. Inside the life of the Cannes Film Festival’s almighty power broker.

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