Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In 2014 American character changed. A large and influential generation came of age in the shadow of accumulating failures by the ruling class—especially by business and foreign policy elites. This new generation had little faith in ideas that previous ones were raised on: All men are created equal. Work hard and you can be anything. Knowledge is po
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
when the main existential constraints on life have been removed, people become more interested in freedom and direct their energies into social movements and the fight against discrimination of all kinds.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
When it comes to the future of our world, we have lost our way in a fundamental manner, and not just on a few details. We must return to principles, but we do not always have good principles to guide us. We have strayed from the ideals of a society based on prosperity and the rights and liberties of the individual, and we do not know how to return
... See moreTyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
This new ideology was defined by seven major themes: a rejection of the existence of objective truth; the use of a form of discourse analysis for explicitly political ends; an embrace of strategic essentialism; a deep pessimism about the possibility of overcoming racism
Yascha Mounk • The Identity Trap
Balaji S. Srinivasan • If Einstein Had The Internet: An Interview With Balaji Srinivasan
These incidents of “political correctness,” amplified by right-wing media, whipped up hatred of elites out in Real America. The culture wars raged on, as bloody-minded and durable as the Thirty Years’ War, a full-employment program for pundits of every type. Some worried about a generation of ultra-sensitive children coddled by ultra-indulgent adul
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