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Volume 1

A reading list for Volume 1
Some light holiday reading from the Caravanserai Editorial Board.
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Politics needs to cultivate a relationship to the future.
The Caravanserai Editorial Board closes out Volume 1.
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Embrace the dialectic.
A table of contents to Volume 1, featuring letters to the editor.
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Humans are inadequate for humans.
How do large language models change how people make decisions?
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This is a bad transit idea.
Which public transit ideas are actually good?
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Decoupling sounds heroic until the bill arrives.
Are the risks of Chinese technology and investment greater for India, or the benefits?
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Essential district listening.
Capsule reviews of films, albums, and books that our writers have enjoyed lately.
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No one knows what they do, but they are probably behind everything.
Does the government have a need for the services of an entity like Palantir?
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Structured and righteous chaos.
We know what fascist aesthetics look like. What are progressive aesthetics—are they coherent? Are they persuasive?
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But the worth of a human can also persuade.
What are the promises (or pitfalls) of "affordability" as a political goal?
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You can choose to look up—at all that is above.
Is "all-of-the-above" energy policy a smokescreen for fossil fuel lock-in? If not, why not?
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Volume 1: Introduction
Welcome to Caravanserai.
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