344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
It’s possible to look at the course of history over the past few centuries and discern a movement toward increasing
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Politics
327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
“Liberalism,” divorced from its particular connotations in this or that modern political context, refers broadly to a philosophy of individual
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322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom
When we think of the capacities that distinguish humans from other species, we generally turn to intelligence and its byproducts,
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305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
Political outcomes would be relatively simple to predict and understand if only people were well-informed, entirely rational, and perfectly self-interested.
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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, has proposed sweeping cuts to spending on
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290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
It’s a wonder democracy works at all — a collection of people with potentially different interests have to agree to
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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
One common feature of complex systems is sensitive dependence on initial conditions: a small change in how systems begin evolving
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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
When it comes to social change, two questions immediately present themselves: What kind of change do we want to see
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250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating The Information Ecosystem
The modern world inundates us with both information and misinformation. What are the forces that conspire to make misinformation so
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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
Why do people voluntarily hand over authority to a government? Under what conditions should they do so? These questions are
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