A Free Press Conversation with Natan Sharansky
Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more
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Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more
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Conflict: Technological Progressives vs Technological Conservatives You can think of the “people of the Network” as technological progressives, and the “people of the State” as political progressives (charitably) or technological conservatives (perhaps more realistically).
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech
Carole Cadwalladrtheguardian.com
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revocable. It’s this clash, between the authoritarian and the liberal democratic, that I believe to be the major ideological conflict of my time
Edward Snowden • Permanent Record
At the close of the twentieth century it appeared that the great ideological battles between fascism, communism, and liberalism had resulted in the overwhelming victory of liberalism. Democratic politics, human rights, and free-market capitalism seemed destined to conquer the entire world. But as usual, history took an unexpected turn, and after fa
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The world is being forcibly reconfigured by at least three concurrent revolutions: a geopolitical revolution driven by the rise of China; an ideological revolution consuming the Western world; and a technological revolution exacerbating both of the former.Geopolitically, a decent understanding of what is happening, if not of its full extent, has em... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
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Dwight McDonald, 1952. Cf. "Hey hey, ho ho, Western culture's got to go" - Stanford students in 1988. End of postwar/cold war consensus about Western civilization.