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The Rise of Electoral Autocracy
What does the autocratising of democracy look like?
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Alan Flanagan
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Morality Salience and Our Mass Psychosis
Existential dread underpins "political polarisation".
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Alan Flanagan
April 2023
Sanitising the Arts Strips them of their Power
We can't censor our way to a more tolerant society.
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Alan Flanagan
3
Finding Sisyphus
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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Alan Flanagan
2
Policing Language is About Controlling Thought
Dismantling stable meaning from language is not politically "radical".
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Alan Flanagan
15
March 2023
Listening from the Distance of Centuries
Our turbulent times echo the Reformation.
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Alan Flanagan
1
February 2023
The Death of Thinking
The zeal for AI large language models is naive.
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Alan Flanagan
2
Is the Ukraine War Lose-Lose?
All roads lead to potentially dangerous outcomes.
4
January 2023
A Battle of Ideas
The rise of the illiberal world order.
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Alan Flanagan
2
Sufficiently Truth-y Sounding
The new liberal standard for facts.
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Alan Flanagan
4
On Time
The dilemma of our temporal awareness.
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Alan Flanagan
7
December 2022
Lost in a Torrent of Noise
Our capacity for shared sense-making is gone.
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Alan Flanagan
7
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