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'It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.' Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals’ relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility—one that was to be the guiding principle of his intellectual life.
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Noam Chomsky discusses key inflection points in America’s foreign policy, from the Iraq War to the Libyan intervention to Afghanistan.
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The outstanding stock of public debt is a historical artifact. Barring default, it cannot be changed. Willem Buiter says it makes no sense to add an additional debt ceiling to the congressional fiscal-financial arsenal.
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Gerard Comizio discusses the emerging legal and regulatory framework governing virtual currency activities. Since the advent of the first virtual currency (Bitcoin) in 2008, a new global financial ecosystem has emerged, composed of an increasing number and variety of digital assets.
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Democratic policymaking requires compromise, but public support for it varies substantially. David Barker discusses the predictive capacities of humanitarianism and egalitarianism.
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How have changes in the costs of enrolling full-time at public two- and four-year colleges affected student decisions about whether and where to enroll in college? Taylor Delaney discusses the impact of public higher education costs on the post-secondary enrollment decisions of high school graduates over three decades.
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The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate was controversial from the start and evolved over time into the most unpopular provision of the law. Wendy Epstein considers both neoclassical economic theory and the realities of individual decision making described by behavioral economics to begin to grapple with the complex problem of why people do not enroll in health insurance policies.
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Starting from the uniformity of moral statements about social inequality during the Obama presidency, Michael Strand historicizes those statements by analyzing an archive of discourse drawn from Victorian England.
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Scott Hibbard discusses the role religious institutions played historically in American politics and social life.
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Barely three years had passed since Language I/O’s founding, yet they had a reached a position of turning down some of the world’s most recognizable corporations as clients, to continue growing the business with the laser focus they started with.
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Gayle Mindes discusses why the social studies as the central unifying force for young children.
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Martsella Davitaya discusses research that shows credit score heterogeneity dampens monetary policy transmission through fixed-rate mortgages.
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