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Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times

Dunning highlights a thorny and persistent problem with the system of nonprofit neighborhoods: it channelled and mediated the voices and interests of residents in ways that muffled direct challenges to the distribution of power within their communities.

Insofar as the neighborhood nonprofits that represent them have depended on government for their ... See more

But national developmentalism focused on the central state and big business alone will not suffice. To create a more resilient and secure society, Western countries – chief of all the US and the UK – need a model of political economy that rethinks the national economy in relation to local and regional levels. Industrial policy can no longer privile

Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal

There will be future crack-ups and future attempts at radical reform and the possibility of great accomplishments in our time. The current settlement is too sick to be sustainable. But the crucial ingredient that will make the difference will be some new class of elites with a discipline of craft capable of actually achieving the great things you w... See more

Wolf Tivy • Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods

Be evidence-based and encourage others to be the same.

Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work

Küng acted as the master architect, designing an eight‐sector model for institutional coordination; Swidler functioned as the philosophical operator, providing the legitimacy framework; Bailey served as the consciousness‐conditioning strategist, embedding government–religion–education alignment. Each fulfilled a distinct role in building an apparat... See more

Triangles

After playing a crucial role in the shaping of modern Europe for more than two hundred years—think of Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Mahler, Kafka, Einstein—Jews will gradually leave center stage. The golden era of European Jewry will be over.

Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy

Jonathan Rauch

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What if, instead of just focusing on catching criminals – and serving up ever harsher punishments – after they committed the crime, the police devoted significant resources and effort to eliminating criminal behaviour before it happens?