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The Problem of Morality-Justified Motivated Reasoning
We can't make an ought from an is.
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Alan Flanagan
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The Desert of the Real
Subsumed by a simulation of reality.
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The Intoxicating Allure of Nostalgia
Mobilising nostalgia as a political force.
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Meaning, Purpose, and Arriving at Your Own Door
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The Starbucks Effect
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Why Do Progressives Loathe the Working Class?
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Oh, How Predictable
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A Vacuum of Thought
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The Space In Between
The rare experience of the spacious present.
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A Vacuum of Thought
Have we run out of good ideas?
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Dead Ideas and Lifeless Old Beliefs
Britain and the Lies of Free Market Fundamentalism
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In Defence of Books
Or perhaps a eulogy.
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Climate Inaction is Inseparable from Inequality
Austerity politics sowed the seed for resistance to climate policies from the Right.
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The Roots of Our Fragmentation
Dis-ease is the malady of our times.
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The Starbucks Effect
There is no counterculture in "culture capitalism".
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