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The story ends badly for Zafar and Delhi. After a bitter siege, the British retake the capital, the citizens are massacred, and the old Emperor is exiled to Burma, where he dies, neglected and forgotten. Yet despite his flaws-Zafar was indecisive and easily manipulated by bad advisers-he still...
Voltaire must be spinning in his grave. Just down the Parisian hill from where the Enlightenment's greatest satirist is interred, a noisy scrum of intolerance is drawing any public figure with an image to market, clamoring to deliver a sound bite before the row dies down and the cameras...
Try, Try Again "Looking for the Restart Button" [Jan. 22] stated that part of President George W. Bush's strategy for saving his presidency involves a "new way forward" in Iraq. But just as the reasons for the war were baseless, there is no imaginable outcome that could be called...
I came away from Pinker's article doubting whether we have a soul. If consciousness is just a by-product of electrochemical reactions inside our brain, then where is our soul? Is our soul a separate entity from this collection of tissue and neurons that keeps our body running? Or...
Try, Try Again "Looking for the restart button" [Jan. 22] stated that part of President George W. Bush's strategy for saving his presidency involves a "new way forward" in Iraq. But just as the reasons for the war were baseless, there is no imaginable outcome that could be called...