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Daniel Butt is a political theorist at the University of Oxford, where he is Associate Professor in Political Theory.

Daniel Butt is a political theorist at the University of Oxford, where he is Associate Professor in Political Theory.

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Daniel Butt

Empire, ownership, and the Elgin Marbles

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Jamie Whyte

Democracy on Trial
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Diana Wallis

The Referendum Fallout
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Julian Le Grand

Being Free and Making Choices
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Chandran Kukathas

Anarchy, Open Borders and Utopia
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John Ralston Saul

Immigration and Identity
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Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

Countering the Achievement Society
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Paula Erizanu David Maclean, Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum on how to escape fear
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Nicholas Smith

The Freedom to Be Free at Work
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Matthew Kroenig

Will autocracy triumph over democracy?
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Christian Sarkar, Philip Kotler

How to fix American democracy

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Alex Guerrero

Democracy divides us

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Paul Mason

The new fascism
Sarah Conly

Can the state know what's best?

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Alex Roberto Hybel

Defending freedom will be the downfall of the US
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Robert B. Talisse

Democracy and the polarization trap
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Philip Collins

Ukraine alone won't save democracy
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Peter Godfrey-Smith

Moderating Twitter's moderators
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Alexis Papazoglou, Zac Gershberg

The paradox of democracy
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Jaan Islam

Radical Islam, Marx, and the West
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Nayef Al-Rodhan

AI threatens elections and accountable governance
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Thiven Reddy

A divided South Africa needs Arendt
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Jennifer Saul, Ray Drainville

Politics and the evolution of the dogwhistle
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Harvey Whitehouse

An anthropological guide to the elections
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Daniel Chandler

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

How to avoid working forever
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Dan Braha

The physics of predicting riots
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Chris Voparil

Truth won't save democracy
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John T Jost

Political tribes are predictable
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Alex Guerrero

How to solve democracy's polarisation problem
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Peter Ives

We need to rescue free speech from its defenders