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The Generational Divide and the Death of Dialectic

Each generation goes to battle against the ones that came before. The most recent skirmish on this front has involved a millennial and Gen-Z coalition fighting against Gen-X and boomers.…

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6 min

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Australia: No Country for Celebrity Entitlement

Australians’ lack of familiarity with social hierarchy extends far beyond colonial rebellions and armed conflict. Generations of robust industrial relations activism, combined with a non-existent social hierarchy, means that hospitality and service workers earn a liveable wage…

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5 min

Politics

Andrew Yang and Zoltan Istvan Subvert the Political Binary

The 2020 race for president, so far, has been almost entirely predictable. Joe Biden continues to lead the Democrats in many polls, thanks to his name recognition (thanks to Obama)…

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12 min

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China or the US: Who Will Lead Us Through the Twenty-First Century?

China’s phenomenal economic and geopolitical ascent over the past two decades has raised the question of who will dominate in the twenty-first century: the United States or China? However, framing…

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7 min

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The Dissolution of the Rule of Law

The UK and the US both seem to be losing the spirit of constitutionalism, the sense of a game-within-a-game. This is not a phenomenon limited to the political classes. It…

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5 min

Trump Isn’t Selfish—That’s the Problem

Following the latest allegations of Trump’s corruption and calls to impeach him, more journalists have speculated about what really motivates the president. Many posit that Trump is selfish. An essay…

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32 min

Politics

Want to Fix Public Schools? Fix the Public First.

Prelude: Public Schools are the Public’s Schools Americans have complained about public schools for as long as America has had them. Depending on who you talk to, they’re either too…

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8 min

Politics

The Cooperative Nature of Capitalism

Capitalism is often lambasted nowadays. Turn on the television, open a newspaper or magazine, attend a lecture or just hang out over a cup of coffee or beer, and, at…

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12 min

The Disdain of the Clerks

Human beings are too dumb for democracy. That’s the thesis of a paper delivered by political psychologist Shawn Rosenberg at the Annual Conference of Political Psychology last July, approvingly covered…

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7 min

Politics

How the Engaged Left Can Argue With The Right

Several months ago, Galen Watts and I published two articles on what we called the engaged left. In these pieces, we provided a brief genealogy of progressive thinking and activism,…

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7 min

Politics

The Rise of the Post-Religious Right

The story of contemporary American history is intricately tied to the rapid secularization of a society that traditionally understood itself in explicitly Biblical terms. Once a devoutly Christian nation –…

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7 min

Politics

National Values and the Denaturalisation of Shamima Begum

On 9 February 1933, Irishman James Gralton was denaturalised and deported from what was then the Irish Free State. He had spent some years in the US, but he was…

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13 min

Politics

The War on Terror: A Response to Jonathan Church

In a previous article for Areo, I revisit the philosophical debate about free will and determinism, arguing that the recently debunked Libet experiments are irrelevant to the main conceptual issue.…

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6 min

Politics

Calm the F*** Down About Brexit

Dear Fellow Brits, You are upset. I get that. I am hardly sanguine myself. Leaving the European Union is a massive undertaking that cannot help but have profound consequences for…

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11 min

Politics

In Defence Of Change

We are currently living through a phase transition in the West: economically, demographically, technologically, culturally and environmentally, inter alia. Economically, millions of traditional jobs have been wiped out by new…

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8 min

Politics

“Liberalism: The Life of An Idea.” Book Review

Thirty years ago, few people could have predicted that liberalism would be in crisis a few decades later. Populist post-modern conservatives on the political right and democratic socialists on the…

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Politics

The Generational Divide and the Death of Dialectic

Australia: No Country for Celebrity Entitlement

Andrew Yang and Zoltan Istvan Subvert the Political Binary

China or the US: Who Will Lead Us Through the Twenty-First Century?

The Dissolution of the Rule of Law

Trump Isn’t Selfish—That’s the Problem

Want to Fix Public Schools? Fix the Public First.

The Cooperative Nature of Capitalism

The Disdain of the Clerks

How the Engaged Left Can Argue With The Right

The Rise of the Post-Religious Right

National Values and the Denaturalisation of Shamima Begum

The War on Terror: A Response to Jonathan Church

Calm the F*** Down About Brexit

In Defence Of Change

“Liberalism: The Life of An Idea.” Book Review

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