Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
THE DURABILITY QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Parag Khanna • Great Protocol Politics
In a world of artificial reality and instantaneous transmission of everything everywhere, integrity of judgment and the ability to distinguish the true from the false will be even more important.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.
Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
The courts only work when some petty war criminal gets caught and everyone decides to look virtuous.”
Kim Stanley Robinson • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
VESTED INTERESTS
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The crisis of self-governance
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Tal Shachar • Main Street Bets
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
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