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I am happy to pass along this guest post from my frequent collaborator, Elliott Wainwright. — At oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked several times how the Citizenship Clause works when members of Indian tribes are born beyond the limits of tribal domains. The peculiar Oregon Territory citizenship statute Congress passed in 1872 and the effect it had—or ought to have had—on the citizenship status of tribal Indians born in that territory appears to bear on Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s inquiry. However, despite the fact that John Vlahoplus and Michael L. Rosin have written about…
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What does it mean for a civilisation to turn against itself? In this episode, Quillette’s Zoe Sankey speaks with philosopher and author Benedict Beckeld — whose 2019 Quillette essay on oikophobia remains one of our site’s most popular pieces — about the recurring historical phenomenon he has spent his career documenting: the tendency of successful Western societies to denigrate their own culture, institutions, and inheritance.Oikophobia — Our Western Self-Hatred | Benedict Beckeld | QuilletteThe simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.Drawing on his book Oikophobia: Our Western Self-Hatred, published by Cornell University Press, Beckeld traces…
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Bitcoin (BTC) is once again approaching its yearly low near $59,000 after a failed recovery attempt left bulls unable to reclaim key resistance levels.…
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An excellent resource from Prof. Ed Lee (Santa Clara). The focus is on tort lawsuits brought against AI companies or otherwise based on defendants’…
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In brief Crypto swap APIs let businesses add token exchange inside their own apps, pulling liquidity from an outside provider without building exchange infrastructure.…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. It’s election day here in D.C., so our lead story looks at the district’s…
A handful of tokens continued their run while bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market stalled after the early week bounce. Read the…
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In brief Federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged plot to attack the White House UFC Freedom 250 event using explosive drones and shooters.…