Tag Archives: July 2024

Politics: Foreign Affairs Magazine – July/Aug 2024

July/August 2024

Foreign Affairs (June 25, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Does America Need a New Foreign Policy?…

A Foreign Policy for the World as It Is

Biden and the Search for a New American Strategy

“America is back.” In the early days of his presidency, Joe Biden repeated those words as a starting point for his foreign policy. The phrase offered a bumper-sticker slogan to pivot away from Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership. It also suggested that the United States could reclaim its self-conception as a virtuous hegemon, that it could make the rules-based international order great again. Yet even though a return to competent normalcy was in order, the Biden administration’s mindset of restoration has occasionally struggled against the currents of our disordered times. An updated conception of U.S. leadership—one tailored

The Return of Peace Through Strength

Making the Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy

Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin phrase that emerged in the fourth century that means “If you want peace, prepare for war.” The concept’s origin dates back even further, to the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, to whom is attributed the axiom, “Peace through strength—or, failing that, peace through threat.”

America Is Losing the Arab World

And China Is Reaping the Benefits

Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – July 2024

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – June 17, 2024: The latest issue features Resisting Artificial Intelligence; A visual history of the Olympics and What remains of Syria…

The Gods of Logic

AI images generated by Phillip Toledano for Harper’s Magazine © The artist/Institute. Toledano’s book Another America was published in May by L’Artiere Edizioni.

Before and after artificial intelligence

We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in its path, a chaos that engulfed generations in an orgy of destruction lasting almost a hundred years. A war with a death toll so high that it left a permanent scar on humanity’s soul. But we will never know the names of those who fought and died in it, or the immense suffering and destruction it caused, because the Butlerian Jihad, abominable and devastating as it was,…

Metal Machine Music

Can AI think creatively? Can we?

“Far as the east from even, / Dim as the border star, / Life is the little creature / That carries the great cigar.” So wrote Emily Dickinson, with some unfortunate help from a computer. As I read that stanza in February 2022, I was more than six months into a scientific experiment I was conducting with my friend and colleague Morten Christiansen, a cognitive psychologist at Cornell, where he and I are professors. In 2021, two years before ChatGPT would become a household name, Christiansen had been impressed by the initial technical descriptions of GPT-3, the recently released version of the generative large language…

Harvard Business Review – July/August 2024 Issue

July–August 2024

Harvard Business Review (June 15, 2024) –

Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Like Scientists

Founders of start-ups who question and test their theories are more successful than their overly confident peers.

How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

Models and forecasts can be seductive, but it’s time for executives to reclaim their economic judgment.

The Middle Path to Innovation

Forget disruption and incrementalism. Here’s how to develop high-growth products in slow-growth companies.

Ideas & Research: Harvard Magazine July/Aug 2024

HARVARD MAGAZINE July/August 2024 :

Decoding the Deep

David Gruber on the North Shore of Massachusetts

Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales

by Jonathan Shaw

Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity

An illustration of generations of computers, from large machines to smartphones and the cloud

Reflections on six decades of relations with comptuers

by Harry R. Lewis

National Geographic Traveller – July/Aug 2024

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National Geographic Traveller Magazine (June 11, 2024): The July/August 2024 issue features a look beyond California’s vineyards and glacier-carved national parks to savour its tranquil coast, home to laid-back surf resorts and wave-lashed islands harbouring wildlife found nowhere else on Earth with the Jul/Aug 2024 issue. Plus, high-octane thrills in the deserts and mountains of Ras Al Khaimah and a slow journey along ancient trails in Cape Verde’s elemental hiking country.

Also inside this issue:

Ras Al Khaimah: The Emirate state of mountains, deserts and coastline is now emerging as an adventure hub 
Cape Verde: The West African archipelago is prime hiking country, with ancient trails running through farms and mountains
Slovakia: The past is felt with every step in the central region of Horehronie, home to lush valleys and a diverse folk culture 
Peru: Unforgettable itineraries through which to discover the nation’s cuisine, culture and complex history 
Barcelona: There’s always time for one more cocktail on streets peppered with clandestine speakeasies 
Hamburg: Wedded to the water, Germany’s ‘gateway to the world’ has long welcomed the tides of change  
Danish Lakes:Dive into the waters around Silkeborg, where wild swimming spots mingle with fairytale forests 
South Devon: Award-winning wines, local rums and stellar farm shops in the south west 
Rome: Savour the Eternal City with a stay that incorporates its rich history, from secluded boutiques to grand palazzi

Plus, The return of Liguria’s much-loved Via dell’Amore; Ireland’s new national park; the story of Belgian cuisine; Tartu’s best hotels; a salsa-lovers guide to Cali, Colombia; Alpine thrills in Austria; a UK break in North Staffordshire; books for the summer months and kit for family trips to the coast. 

We talk with author Sophie Yeo on the legacy of ice fishing in the Finnish wilderness, and ranger Edward Ndiritu on the future of anti-poaching in central Kenya. In our Ask the Experts section, the experts give advice on planning a food tour in Malaysia, low-impact French hiking holidays and more. The Info peeks behind the curtain of the Edinburgh Fringe, while Hot Topic explores the state of travel in Cyprus 50 years since its division. After a look at the winning images of this year’s Photo Competition, photographer Ulf Svane discusses distilling the magic of Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival for our June issue in How I got the shot.

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine June/July 2024

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Philosophy Now Magazine (June/July 2024)The new issue features ‘The Meaning Issue’…

The Search for Meaning

by Rick Lewis

A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.

Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.

Philosophers Exploring The Good Life

Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.

The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness

Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.

What Is Life Worth?

Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.

Opinion & Politics: Reason Magazine – July 2024

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REASON MAGAZINE (May 23, 2024)The latest issue features ‘It Was A Very Safe City’ – Crime and homelessness in America...

Gimme Shelter

The U.S. confronts a growing homelessness problem. Does Miami have the answer?

What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave?

DC | Photo: Al Drago/The Washington Post/Getty

Government mismanagement, not sentencing reform or sparse social spending, deserves the blame.

JOE BISHOP-HENCHMAN

American Small Businesses Are Desperate for Foreign Workers

Seasonal businesses can’t get the short-term labor from abroad that they need.

FIONA HARRIGAN

Cutting Off Israel

Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That’s why it’s worth doing.

MATT WELCH