Historian Niall Ferguson: America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome

… and, historically, republics tend to last around 250 years

 

‘The net result of the Biden administration’s foreign policy was that an axis formed that didn’t exist in 2020, an axis that brought together Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. And unlike the axis of evil of 2002 around the Iraq war, it actually exists. It’s not just an idea for a speech. These powers cooperate together, economically and militarily.…’ via Noema

Why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine


 

A fascinating essay by a philosopher of language stretching our minds toward inconceivably different modes of communication we might encounter in alien intelligence.

— via Nikhil Mahantis, a philosopher specialising in language and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden, in Aeon Essays

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