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What are the forces that a postliberal politics will have to contend with after the pandemic? Besides hostile foreign powers and tech totalitarianism, there are the forces of hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics that disrupt the lives we assumed were solid.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
On current evidence, the reimagining of liberalism is not about to happen, as most attempts either buy into the liberal premise that the economy trumps culture, which ignores the importance of mutual recognition, or else accept the primacy of the individual and negative liberty, which ends in the individualism that has destroyed any prospects of sh
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Putin commands a large military establishment that includes a nuclear arsenal. He can dispose of the wealth generated by Russian oil. He is, beyond question, a cunning and manipulative man, and he does not wish the US, Europe, or liberal democracy well. But I ask you, good reader, to maintain a sense of scale on the subject.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
On voit Berlusconi, dont on fit bêtement un attardé alors qu’il était un précurseur, se métastaser à travers l’Occident, de Trump aux États-Unis à Babiš en République tchèque. On voit les GAFA réfléchir aux villes de demain, inventer les nouveaux espaces publics, qui auront la spécificité vertigineuse d’être privés. Au nom du bien-être de chacun, e
... See moreRaphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)
The last and most important thing is that this is a rough inversion of the 20th century, as the formerly communist/socialist countries are on the ethnocultural right, while the capitalist bloc is on the ethnocultural left.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Advances and Challenges in International Higher Education
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