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Can we escape AI slavery? Only the Left can tame big tech This is light years beyond mere surveillance capitalism. (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty) Yanis Varoufakis 12 Feb 2026 · 6 mins Artificial intelligence · Big tech · Prometheus Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, did not have two separate heads, but rather was two […]

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Telling the Truth About China’s Success With the Persian Gulf in flames, de-escalation of the cold war between the United States and China must become the world’s top priority. To that end, it is essential to explode a powerful myth: the idea that China has cheated its way to prosperity. ATHENS – As missiles, bombs, […]

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More than the teachings of Augustine, Paul, or even Jesus himself, Nicaea set the essential terms and parameters of the faith.

India’s infrastructural turn is no longer just a national story—it’s a global prototype. 

Among the instruments Roberto Assagioli trusted, the aphorism held a special place.

There is marked difference between Jan and the earlier Beats, including the early Beat girlfriends.

Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.

By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.

All the adventures were tests, but not of the Don’s courage. Rather, they were tests of friendship, pure and simple. 

For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.