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- #265: Ukraine Wants Peace and Russia Must Lose (12/16/2024)
- #264: Freedom from Assad (12/8/2024)
- #256: Words Are Not Violence, But They Can Promote It (7/16/2024)
- #254: What If I’m Wrong? (6/13/2024)
- #229: Fighting for Love in Times of War (10/9/2023)
- #218: The West Is Not in Decline (6/20/2023)
- #217: Thoughts on June 17: The GDR Was an Inhumane Dictatorship (6/17/2023)
- #191: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev (8/30/2022)
- #187: Words Are Not Violence (8/17/2022)
- #186: Salman Rushdie and the Case for Free Speech (8/17/2022)
- #166: Reflections on Memorial Day (5/31/2022)
- #122: Only a Zero Covid Strategy Will Bring Success (12/15/2021)
- #83: The Purpose of History, or, We Need to Explain Democracy Better (3/28/2021)
- #58: Question Everything; But Also Yourself (10/21/2020)
- #40: Enabling Free Speech, or, the Problem of the Public Sphere (7/10/2020)
- #39: Free Speech is Absolute (7/9/2020)
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