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This week, Mead and Stern discuss Russia and Saudi Arabia, the remote work revolution, 19th-century French industrial policy, and living in the shadow of a Singularity.
Recommended reading
Via Meadia by Walter Russell Mead (Tablet)
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead (Knopf)
RSS: A View to the Inside by Walter Andersen and Shridhar Damle (Penguin)
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