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Christopher Blattman identifies five “logical ways” why, despite the reasons to compromise, people opt to fight. They all map quite neatly onto the war in Ukraine econ.st/3v81cqK

Why did Vladimir Putin, knowing the enormous costs, decide to invade Ukraine? The author of “Why We Fight” provides five rationales for war econ.st/38deFVo

The vast majority of artists in “The Milk of Dreams” have never been shown in Venice before. The curator’s references to artists of the past, as shows-within-shows, is what gives this exhibition its heft econ.st/3LcUBBd

The best covers capture the mood of the record within. But that is not their primary purpose econ.st/36vpNwp

His life and work has inspired teaching in school classrooms and universities as well as countless tributes to his music econ.st/3xKvcuI

An album cover is an advertisement. Its purpose is to make you pick the record out of the racks. If it looks nice too, that’s an added bonus econ.st/3MuS2ux

Fewer than ten percent of the artists showing at the Biennale in the main exhibition are men econ.st/3xVHW1s

In China it is increasingly the camera-wielding crowd, not the experts, who determine the status of artworks econ.st/3EHpPxR

How has the reputation of “The Angry Man of Jazz”, a figure prone to outbursts, managed to survive so well into the era of “cancel culture”? econ.st/3EBtPQi

Galleries in China are appealing to social-media influencers to boost visitor numbers. This reopens old debates about the role and value of art econ.st/3xNKJdb

The story of Dick Conant, a man who paddled the great rivers of America in a canoe econ.st/3L62Wqa

Cecilia Alemani considers what artists today want to make, what ties them to creators of the past, and what people are hoping to see. There is not a single NFT or piece of virtual reality in sight econ.st/38hY56V

Until 2017 Las Vegas had no professional sports teams at all econ.st/38C8U3B

Much like Americans themselves, the country’s sports teams seem to be moving to blossoming cities in the south and west econ.st/3vuwokw

Both Seattle and Las Vegas are rumoured to be in the running for a professional basketball team should the National Basketball Association decide to expand econ.st/3vsyBN8

The shift in America’s sporting centre of gravity is not new econ.st/3Lv3KoO

When it was released 50 years ago, “The Wicker Man” may have been intended as a warning against indulging in arcane superstitions. Today the film seems like an advert for them econ.st/48yEuJj 👇

Kim Stanley Robinson tells “Babbage” about the role of novels in bringing the story of environmental change to life; and how fact and fiction on this topic are quickly beginning to blur. Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3SIRWVY

Donald Trump will be the next president of America. Wisconsin’s ten electoral-college votes put him on 277, passing the threshold of 270 needed to win the race econ.st/3NVYUnn