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James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling’s “broken windows” theory posited that crime is more than a willful act—it’s the product of a cultural atmosphere.

Atwood posits that “every question-and-answer session” is an illusion where there are “at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes.”

“West End Girl” and the public’s ensuing reaction posit that it might be possible.

Sibylline posits that, faced with mounting economic and political pressure internally, China may feel compelled to force unification with Taiwan in 2027.

In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that an apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.