In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the ...
Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...
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The Soul in the Machine

The intellectual landscape of Bengal has historically been a dialogue between the "Red Flag" and the "Ochre Robe," a dialectic between Karl Marx’s historical materialism and Swami Vivekananda’s ...
In an age of fragmentation, the cumulative insights of philosophers, scientists, poets, and mystics offer a discipline of attentiveness—a path to think carefully, act justly, and remain open to wonder ...
While the government heralded plans for Britain’s first automated research lab, leading AI expert Professor Yu Xiong, who ...
Britain has made a huge miscalculation – the era of the AI unemployables is here - IN FOCUS: While the government heralded ...
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Killer robots and the fetish of automation

For far too long, two specters have been haunting the world of artificial intelligence and warfare, and they both featured in the same movie. The first is Skynet — the specter of general artificial ...
Concerned Citizens of NY-03, a “good government” community group, ramped up pressure on local lawmakers this past week, urging them to prevent Kings Point parkland alienation ahead of the state ...
After Richard Marx wrote what became his biggest hit, “Right Here Waiting,” it took a boomerang of rejection for the song to return to him. He felt the song was too personal to record himself, so he ...
Steven Hassan, Ph.D., a mental health professional, cult, and undue influence expert, has been working in the field of relationship, group, and political cults for over 47 years. In 1974, at the age ...