Alain Pilon
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Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the makeup of global Christianity.
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Issue 11: Church and State
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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have written a new book. Should we take it seriously?
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interview
Claude Finds God
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Admiral Hyman Rickover was the Father of the Nuclear Navy — and one of the most effective bureaucrats in the history of the U.S. government. He also thought it was impossible to teach management by writing about it, but that didn’t stop him from trying.
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A comprehensive but nowhere near exhaustive overview of how the Trump Administration is impacting American science.
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Counting every citizen is one of the most basic functions of the state. For much of the world, it remains extraordinarily difficult.
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Religion in America was once the domain of institutions. How did it grow to be dominated by cults of personality — and what can the process tell us about the rest of American culture?
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In the 1930s, private utilities balked at the task of bringing electricity to rural America. A New Deal agency figured out how to do it more quickly and more cheaply than anyone expected.
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Over the next 25 years, Africa is expected to add 900 million people to its cities, the largest wave of urban population growth the world has ever seen. How can the continent begin to prepare today?
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There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.
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The clinical model of psychedelic therapy has become the default way to trip. What might we be missing as a result?
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The world’s largest vaccine manufacturer — by far — is the Serum Institute of India. How did a struggling horse farm in Pune become one of the most important companies in global health?
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America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.
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Criminal networks throughout Southeast Asia are demonstrating the dangers of making “the ultimate exit.”
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An American tradition of embracing modernity.
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Everyone loves the hockey stick graph of long-run economic growth. For some, it's the basis of an entire worldview. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t add up.
11: Church & State
Cranberry bouncers. Nuclear submarines. Where do you put 900 million people? Reject tradition, embrace modernity. A family of Zoroastrian horse farmers. Rat cults. Non-rat cults. Who was collecting GDP statistics in the first century? The dark underbelly of SEZs. Giant ants. Stop blaming the algorithms. Is that a church or is it a dispensary? Cyclone emoji. Cyclone emoji. Cyclone emoji.