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Surveillance and control
It is often argued that privacy is a small price to pay for progress, but is this truly a necessary sacrifice or more of a Faustian bargain?
A collection · read in any order
Thawing our frozen politics
Essays and conversations about how we disagree, who gets heard, and what politics could be if it remembered the questions underneath it.
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The Politics of Uplift
As we struggle to raise ourselves up, what are we willing to bury in the process?
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3 | Loving the Least of These While Working for Justice with Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West
Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West reflect on the legacy of the Catholic Worker movement and the ongoing call to comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable, and disarm the world with love.
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Ethical Approaches to Discourse in Virtual Spaces
How do we create healthy conditions of discourse in an increasingly polarized, and ideologically volatile world? What does it mean to cultivate an online culture of curiosity and care?
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Everybody hates a tourist: why socio-political theory never gets it right about common people
Metaphors matter. When too many of our core conceptual analogies about people and politics try to bring a knife to a gun fight, are we left trying to eat soup with a fork?
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Critical Thinking or Care-full Thinking?
Is it possible that our prized tool for dissecting truth—critical thinking—might actually be sharpening divides rather than bridging them? Peter Gilderdale confronts a paradox at the heart of a cherished intellectual tradition: are we merely critiquing, or are we truly considering?
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After the End of History: thoughts on thawing our frozen politics
Few things divide us more than politics, yet one thing almost all of us can agree on is that our politics is broken. Liberal democracy itself is in crisis - why? Can there be hope of a more beautiful politics before it all falls apart?