Matt Johnson

Photo by Drew Hays Robert D. Kaplan’s February 1994 Atlantic article “The Coming Anarchy” was one of the most influential articles of the years immediately following the Cold War. The subtitle…

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The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism

September 21, 2018
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Matt Johnson

In his 1981 book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, Peter Singer argues that our sense of moral responsibility has steadily grown to encompass larger and larger groups…

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What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from Orwell

August 21, 2018
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Matt Johnson

At the end of a 1940 essay on Charles Dickens, George Orwell described his subject as a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open…

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Robert D. Kaplan, Covid-19 and the Anarchy that Never Came

The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism

What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from Orwell

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