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The Sense of an Endling

Tim Flannery The New York Review
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.

Elon Musk’s Takeover

Katie Harbath Lawfare
A review of “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” and “Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History.”

The Antisemitism Scare: Guide for the Perplexed

Alan Wald Against the Current
As Zionist Israel becomes an international symbol of oppression, immorality, and illiberalism, Jews throughout the world are wrongly put in danger because the Israeli state insists that it speaks for all of us.
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