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Is the big tech era ending?
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No wait stop it matters how you raise your kids
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Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters
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The emperor's new clothes
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Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?
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The Italian city-states as a distant mirror
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The global defeat of democracy: geopolitics, and what to do about it
This is the last in a series of articles setting out pessimistic scenarios for contemporary democracy. Here I consider the international situation, and…
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The global defeat of democracy: ideological weaknesses
As we face a battle of ideas with autocracies, the traditional ringing justifications of democracy no longer carry much credence. Instead we have an…
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The global defeat of democracy: financial weaknesses
This is the third in my series of articles laying out the pessimistic case for democracy’s future. Pink mountain? What pink mountain?
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🍾🥂 Thought bubbles: a Christmas list 🍾🥂
Features: Revd Bayes, Father Christmas, Symmachus, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Montaigne
The global defeat of democracy: political weaknesses
This is part 2 of an extended essay about democracy in 2023, laying out the pessimistic case. Part 1 is here. There is no will of the people…
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The global defeat of democracy: a scenario
(This is the first part of a larger essay developing my thinking on international politics today. The whole piece should serve as a backdrop to some…
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Does birth order matter?
I think so
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Wyclif's Dust
Wyclif's Dust
Serious and frivolous ideas about politics, culture, social science and the world.
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