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Charlie Kirk’s Shooting, A Turning Point?
Controversial political activist shot in broad daylight, what now? Charlie Kirk and then-former-President Donald Trump speaking with...
Ekin Köseoğlu
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Free Will and Rational Choice Theory: Exploring the Compatibility
Is our ability to choose freely an illusion, or can it stand alongside the calculated world of economic decision-making?
Efe Metin Çetin
Apr 2113 min read
Visionary Politics is Left to the Far-Right – And It’s Killing Democracy
© Todd Trapani / Unsplash If politics were a Netflix show, I’d be wondering who greenlit this mess. Every day, we’re confronted with new...
Anton Obermair
Mar 244 min read
Rental Lives
Why don't we own anything anymore? Mick Haupt via Pexels What do you own? What do you have the title deeds for? Do you have a house? A...
Ekin Köseoğlu
Dec 10, 20247 min read
Oh, ignore that.
What comes to your mind when someone says Israel? Have you thought about why you think the way you do?
Ekin Köseoğlu
Oct 19, 20235 min read
Digital Disillusionment
‘But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance’ -Albert Camus The 21st century has seen humanity...
Yazan Azab
May 10, 20233 min read
The Tech Trap
Innovation Should Not Become A Zero-Sum Game Taiwan, Trade, and TikTok. When it seems like relations between the United States and China...
Riad Guliyev
May 2, 20234 min read
Cultural Frankensteins
“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark...
Yazan Azab
Feb 16, 20234 min read
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