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“What we are seeing in Myanmar is the first successfully sustained rebellion against an oppressive regime since the Arab Spring. Deep in the jungle, a young doctor told me: ‘This is more than just a civil war; it is a revolution.’” —Charles Petrie #myanmar #participatorygovernance #civilsociety

“The history of the FDA shows that [regulatory incentive] structures can promote innovation rather than inhibit it & stimulate a lot of profit along the way, by rewarding companies to push the frontier of science to solve societal problems.” —Emilia Javorsky #artificialintelligence #airegulation #aiinnovation

“Thrown out with the dirty bathwater of the culture wars is the universal dimension of all identities.” —Nathan Gardels #identitypolitics #culturewars #subculture

“If the runaway success of historical conspiracies is any evidence, the survival of history as an academic discipline may rely on something quite unpalatable to historians: channeling the power of history as a form of narrative, & politicizing its present.” —John Last #history #academia #narrative

“The total association in popular culture of Indigenous peoples & environmental stewardship has birthed what academics have termed the ‘ecologically noble savage,’” Tristan Søbye Rapp writes. But it’s a complete myth. #conservation #history #anthropology

“While the very real concerns which animate popular emotions at the polls cannot & should not be dismissed or diminished, the dissonant role of philosophy is to go against the grain of political immediacy to insist on inconvenient truths.” —Nathan Gardels #geopolitics #nationalism #climatechange