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Identity politics is not over, it's going to intensify

The ancient roots of identity politics

Jean-Paul Faguet
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Identity politics is over, here’s what will replace it

Populism is post-identity politics

Andreas Wimmer
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gender identiy is experiential

Gender is decided by experience, not biology or choice

Kant and de Beauvoir on the philosophy of gender

Helga Varden
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We need to rescue free speech from its defenders

Everything we get wrong about free speech

Peter Ives
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China, feminism and the legacy of Confucius

The feminist heart of Confucian philosophy

Sor-hoon Tan
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Gentle parenting is not a feminist project

Progressive language masks an old problem

Nina Lyon
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Why Sexual Morality Doesn't Exist

We must get rid of ideas of what sex should be

Alan H. Goldman
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The Phenomenology of Desire and Orgasm

How eroticism defies chemistry, identity and time

Sara Heinämaa
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Sex with Sartre

What does it mean to be a sexual being?

Jean-Pierre Boulé
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The Future of Sex Robots

Could sex robots be a kind of utopia?

Kate Devlin
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Are Addicts Truly Powerless?

Habits don't reflect desires.

Daniel Morgan
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The immorality of monogamy

Why we need to stop restricting our lovers

Harry Chalmers
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The physics of predicting riots

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Vulnerability is the gateway to pleasure

The philosophy and ethics of seduction

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Rawls vs Populism: A new vision for the centre-left

What would a fair society look like?

Daniel Chandler
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Assange's release won't stop government lies

The paradox of speaking truth to power

Sophie Scott-Brown
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Wittgenstein and how to debate your enemy

Polarization and the groundlessness of belief

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Judith Butler: Gender is not a culture war

How neo-liberalism fuels the anti-gender movement

Judith Butler
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We need to democratize AI

Too important to leave to corporations or the government.

Hélène Landemore
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The high priests of effective altruism

When goodness becomes groupthink

Jonathan Anomaly
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Big Tech's challenge to the nation state

Making sense of the new digital dominion

Darcy Bounsall
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The myth of man the hunter

How we’ve fundamentally misunderstood the ‘natural order’

Kimberly Hamlin
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The right to no sex: a case for celibacy

What the sexual revolution forgot

Lisabeth During
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