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What is your ranking of Mahler symphonies? And who are the conductors who get him best?

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Where can we find the influence of René Girard in your thought?

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Why did the self-strengthening movement of the late Qing fail?

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You try a new acclaimed food, supposedly authentic. It tastes gross! You wait a few days and come back again. It still tastes gross! How many times do you return to sample it so that you really get it?

(Jonathan Gold is supposed to have gone to a Taiwanese place in LA over a dozen times before he started to appreciate it.)

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Electronics manufacturing seems to have mostly moved away from Silicon Valley to parts of Asia. Was it inevitable that SV would lose that production, or could it have been prevented (at some cost)?