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The Illiberal Tide
“The “liberal international order” is under severe strain. Although its supporters welcomed the defeat of former U.S. President Donald Trump, the order still faces major challenges from both within and without” (Cooley and Nexon, 2021).
Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?
“The dilemma of self-regulation—to platform or deplatform—becomes more complicated when social media becomes a gallery for illicit activities. Though one could argue Silicon Valley bears some responsibility for enabling the U.S. Capitol insurrection, Facebook—and platforms like it—have also proved integral in pursuing charges against the extremists who invaded and ransacked the building” (Emanuele Ottolenghi, 2021).
One World, Two Systems
“The Chinese leadership is charting a course ahead that depends less on the West. It will become more self-reliant on its own state-driven technological innovation and domestic consumer market while looking to trade with its immediate neighbors and along the revived Silk Roads of Eurasia as the surest route to prosperity and power” (Nathan Gardels, 2021).
The Absent Voices of Development Economics
“Development economics focuses on improving the well-being of billions of people in low-income countries, but the Global South is severely underrepresented in the field. A small number of rich-country institutions dominate, and their growing use of randomized controlled trials in research is entrenching the imbalance” (Subramanian and Kapur, 2021).
What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000?
“Depending on whom you ask, the transaction is an example of a thrilling new path for ownership in a digital world that allows creators to sell things directly with no intermediaries, or it’s a total scam” (Charlie Warzel, 2021).
The New Concert of Powers
“Great-power contests over hierarchy and ideology regularly lead to major wars. Averting this outcome requires soberly acknowledging that the Western-led liberal order that emerged after World War II cannot anchor global stability in the twenty-first century. The search is on for a viable and effective way forward” (Haass and Kupchan, 2021).
An Unusually Optimistic Conversation with Bernie Sanders
“But Sanders’s two presidential campaigns are part of the reason that the Democratic Party had moved, and the politics of the moment had changed. And so I’ve wondered what Sanders makes of this moment. Is it a triumph? A disappointment? A beginning?” (The Ezra Klein Show, 2021).
The U.S. and China Finally Get Real With Each Other
The U.S.-China meeting “would have been a failure if it had resulted in general declarations to cooperate while minimizing competition...organizing the relationship around cooperation is theoretically desirable as an end goal but will be unattainable for the foreseeable future, given the unfolding reality of an assertive, repressive China and a defiant America” (Thomas Wright, 2021).
Another Big Step Toward Digitizing Our Lives
“With NFTs, we’ve come yet another step closer to fully digitizing our lives...they are digital files that are stored using a technology called blockchain, which is essentially a digital ledger. But...NFTs are not interchangeable with one another, because of their unique digital assets as well as important digital authentication” (Kara Swisher, 2021).
The Fantasy Of Political Intimacy
“Conviction in our ability to find common ground, though, is juxtaposed against the simultaneous feeling it would take brute force, dictatorship or some kind of total miracle to overcome polarization. We feel we must overcome political polarization to make progress on the frighteningly big problems that now confront us all” (Eve Fairbanks, 2021).
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