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In 1902 the city of Hanoi paid a bounty for every rat tail handed in, and before long people were spotting tailless rats in the streets, alive, well and breeding. Nobody in that…
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In May 1791 Maximilien Robespierre stood before France's National Assembly and asked it to abolish the death penalty, calling it unjust and useless. Three years later he was a l…
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Which would you trust more: a friend who sometimes says "I don't know," or one who answers every question instantly, in polished sentences, with total confidence, and is quietly…
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Which is easier to fake today, a photograph or a video call with your boss? Neither is hard anymore. A finance worker in Hong Kong learned that after wiring about $25 million to…
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Try a small experiment. Pick the political view you find most baffling, then write it down so well that someone who holds it would ask to borrow your wording. Most people cannot…
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In 2017 a river in New Zealand became a legal person, with guardians who can speak for it in court. That sounds strange until you remember that the company that made your phone …
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Every Thursday at noon, a row of farmers in black smocks sits outside a cathedral door in Valencia and settles quarrels over irrigation water. There are no lawyers, no written b…
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Look up from this page for a moment and count how many things are asking for your eyes: a screen, a blinking light, a sound from the next room. Each one is cheap to produce and …
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Should the railroads try to abolish the commission created to police them? No, their lawyer advised in 1892: the commission could be made "of great use to the railroads," becaus…
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Four places you visited, with the times you were there, are usually enough to pick you out of a crowd of a million and a half. Your phone shares far more than four. Meanwhile th…
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In 1939 a ship carrying more than 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany was turned away from Havana, then from Florida, then from Canada, and sailed back to Europe. Twelve years later, …
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An economist once sent engineers to drill core samples out of newly built village roads in Indonesia. The asphalt told a story no official report would: about a quarter of the m…
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On the night of 3 December 2024, South Korean lawmakers climbed over fences to reach their own parliament, because the president had just declared martial law and soldiers were …
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In 1960, about one American in twenty said they would mind if their child married someone from the other party. Fifty years later, about half of Republicans and a third of Democ…
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In 1757 a Paris crowd watched a man torn apart for attacking the king. Today most punishment happens out of sight, behind prison walls, yet the old question remains: what gives …
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Why do millions of strangers obey words written by people they will never meet? This course starts with that puzzle and the old quarrel it sparked between natural lawyers, who t…
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Why does a quarrel over a parking space so often turn into a fight about respect? This course starts from the idea that conflict is normal and that what matters is how people ha…
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What organizing is (and how it differs from mobilizing and advocacy), its traditions from labor unions to Saul Alinsky, Ella Baker and the civil rights movement, one-on-one rela…
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An introduction to talking and disagreeing well in public life. Eight levels cover why civil discourse matters for self-government (and the critique that civility norms can sile…
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A factual introduction to genocide and other mass atrocities. Eight levels cover where the word genocide came from and what the law means by it, the conditions and processes tha…
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What nonviolence is (and is not), its roots in religious and philosophical traditions, Gandhi and satyagraha, King and the US civil rights movement, Gene Sharp's theory of power…
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