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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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28 min

Politics

In Defense of the War on Terror: A Response to Ben Burgis

In a recent article on free will and determinism for Areo, Ben Burgis concludes that “everything that’s been done in the last eighteen years in the name of fighting terrorism…

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5 min

Politics

In Defence Of Millennials

An all too common feature of modern political discourse is the tendency to pathologize our ideological opponents. Of course, there is value in unearthing the motivations behind particular belief systems,…

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5 min

Politics

The American Electorate Seeks Its Messiah

Elizabeth Warren will cancel your student loans. Donald Trump will drain the swamp. Kamala Harris will fix the gun problem. These are promises made by presidential candidates who wish to…

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7 min

The Word for World is Forest: An Ode to Aarey

We’re about to pave a paradise to put in a railway parking lot. Journey with me in imagination to the last local home of the leopard and the langur and…

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9 min

Incivility, Anger, New Media and Contemporary Politics

One of the consistent claims that seems to unite everyone across the political spectrum is that current politics is highly partisan and increasingly uncivil. The conservative National Review has published…

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4 min

Politics

Mandatory National Service Won’t Restore American Unity

Politico Magazine recently launched “How to Fix Politics in America,” a blockbuster interactive feature exploring 99 “out-of-the-box solutions to America’s biggest problems.” The proposed solutions range from the interesting and creative…

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Politics

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

In Defense of the War on Terror: A Response to Ben Burgis

In Defence Of Millennials

The American Electorate Seeks Its Messiah

The Word for World is Forest: An Ode to Aarey

Incivility, Anger, New Media and Contemporary Politics

Mandatory National Service Won’t Restore American Unity

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