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A barrister's detective story about the two Lviv-educated Jewish lawyers who invented 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide', braided with Sands's own family history and the road to Nuremberg. The best book on why international criminal law exists - and why its two founding ideas, protecting individuals versus protecting groups, still compete.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
March 30, 2026
Veritasium tells the story of antimatter's discovery, PBS Space Time asks if we can test quantum gravity, and Experimental History on why being serious matters.
