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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

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    A Realist Reset for US-Saudi Relations

    Richard Haass

    President Joe Biden’s administration appears determined to separate America's relationship with the Kingdom from the relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But this separation will likely prove impossible to sustain. 

     explains why the Biden administration has no choice but to maintain ties with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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    Low Dishonest Decades

    John Andrews

    Former US President Donald Trump is not Hitler, and America is not the Weimar Republic. But, as four excellent recent books about the interwar years show, false narratives and craven political choices can have dreadful consequences that may not emerge immediately.

     draws contemporary lessons from four recent books charting Europe's slide toward war in the 1920s and 1930s.
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