Timur Kuran

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Professor, Duke University. Economic and political development, social change, Islam, Middle East, Turkey.

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Article Feb, 2023

Why Vladimir Putin’s Luck Ran Out | Journal of Democracy

by Michael McFaul

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Tweet Jan 13, 2023

1/ Respectfully to @JillFilipovic, @Lollardfish & many others who condemned what happened at Hamline as an attack on academic freedom but insist it has nothing to do with cancel culture, campus politics etc I think this POV misses the central role pl

by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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Article Dec 19, 2022

Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative

by Stanford University

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Tweet Apr 4, 2022

Thread: On this day, five years ago, the Syrian regime attacked the town of Khan Sheikoun with the nerve agent Sarin. 92 people were killed; many more left scarred for life. The way #Russia and its western sympathisers responded tells us a lot about

by Idrees Ahmad

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Tweet Feb 28, 2022

🧵 1/13 American progressives are facing an intellectual dilemma. For years, they focused on criticizing US foreign policy. In part because of the anti-capitalism perspective, but also because they, undeliberately, bought into both imperialism & A

by Ibrahim al-Assil إبراهيم الأصيل

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Article Nov 19, 2020

How to focus (and win) in today's distraction-filled world

by Adam Singer

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