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Institutions incentivise silence and the powerful benefit

Institutions incentivise silence and the powerful benefit

Conspiracy or censorship isn't the problem

Narain D. Batra
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Peace in space is a fiction we can't afford

Peace in space is a fiction we can't afford

The language of peace isn't working

Jessica West
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We need Machiavellian leaders

We need Machiavellian leaders

What Machiavellianism really means

Hartmut Behr
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There is no such thing as a country

There is no such thing as a country

The world map is a political fiction

Ian Hurd
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The real reason the US attacked Iran

The real reason the US attacked Iran

The war against Iran is about Western hegemony, not nuclear threats

Nader Hashemi
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Our economic system is designed to make us unhappy

Our economic system is designed to make us unhappy

Growth-at-all-costs capitalism runs on disappointment

Tim Jackson
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A chaotic scene featuring bullet casings and dark red stains arranged on a background of scattered U.S. one-hundred dollar bills, symbolizing violence and money.

Why they killed Gaddafi

Colonialism is alive and well in central banking

Ellen Brown
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An elderly man sitting alone on a train, gazing down at his phone, reflected in the window.

Why you should hate your job

The case against the work ethic

John Danaher
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Portraits of German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx against a vibrant abstract background.

Hegel vs Marx: ideas change the world, not economics

There will be no world state

Jacob McNulty
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How Mahler's symphonies reclaim Nietzsche from the far right

How Mahler's symphonies reclaim Nietzsche from the far right

A philosophy better expressed through music

Leah Batstone
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Studies reveal the real political divide is over the nature of morality

Studies reveal the real political divide is over the nature of morality

The Left and Right disagree about what morality is

Namrata Goyal
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A stylized portrait of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, featuring a blue and red gradient background.

The Left and Right both get Nietzsche wrong

The aristocratic radical

Matt McManus
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The World & The FutureArrow Head

The fate of the world may rest on humanitys most boring invention

The fate of the world may rest on humanity's most boring invention

Global risks, insurance, and the future of government

Louis W. Pauly
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It's dictators, not democracies, that are vulnerable to subversion

Tinker, tailor, soldier, democrat

Jill Kastner
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Space is a critical battlefield, and the West is losing

The next war will be won and lost in space

Bert Chapman
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Progress is humanity's worst idea

We need to abandon progress

Samuel Miller McDonald
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Putin, Xi, and the mistaken quest for immortality

The dangers of eternal life

Andy Owen
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Ideas & IdeologyArrow Head

we need to stop talking about politics

We need to stop talking about politics

Political debate doesn't change minds, relationships and experiences do

Sarah Stein Lubrano
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The real political divide is establishment vs anti-establishment

Anti-system movements today and the threat to democracy

Jonathan Hopkin
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Farage deputy Richard Tice: "Some of our policies... are a form of socialism"

Reform UK deputy leader tells all in exclusive interview

Richard Tice
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Pragmatic politicians are doomed to fail

Max Weber's warning to Carney, Starmer, and other pragmatic politicians

Steven Klein
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Lionel Shriver: We live in an age of political mania

It’s dangerous and socially self-destructive to join the resistance

Lionel Shriver
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Politics & IdentityArrow Head

Religions dangerous return to politics must be resisted

Religion's dangerous return to politics must be resisted

God is dead, but He has returned to politics

Jonas Jakobsen
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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 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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