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Francis Fukuyama is best known for having mistakenly announced the coming of a global liberal quasi-utopia, billed as “the end…
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French philosopher Joseph de Maistre said it first, but Thomas Jefferson and more recently Barack Obama agreed with the aphorism enough to repeat…
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People are used to strange behaviour from the band of bonkers billionaires who run US tech giants, but the one…
The 2007 drawings of Muhammad placed Vilks at the center of a global debate regarding freedom of speech and respect…
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