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How to Find Meaning When Everything is Power

Modernist and pre-modernist unexamined “objectivity” isn’t coming back, but meaning need not be a casualty. Rigorous post-modernism grounds social meaning in the radically interconnected experience of our shared society.

Posted on March 26, 2020May 13, 2020 Mary Harrington

The Case for Hierarchy

Hierarchy is necessary to functional society. But we are haunted by the memory of past injustices, so we’ve clung to unrealistic ideals of equality. It’s time to start rebuilding the positive case for just and useful hierarchies.

Posted on March 16, 2020May 13, 2020 Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei

Do You Feel Lonely?

The sexual revolution, individualism, and technology have all been blamed for our social pathologies, especially widespread loneliness. But the underlying problem is an economy which cannot sustain deep social fabric.

Posted on March 9, 2020May 13, 2020 Nicolas Villarreal

A Little Less Democracy

Faith in democracy has been shaken by populist upheavals over the last decade. This has opened the door for theorists like Garett Jones to explore how the state could be improved with a little less democracy.

Posted on March 5, 2020May 13, 2020 Nick Whitaker

San Francisco’s Future Should Begin with a Land Value Tax

Henry George foresaw San Francisco’s housing crisis. His solution is still the way forward: a bold developmentalist orientation, starting with a land value tax to incentivize denser building.

Posted on February 27, 2020May 15, 2021 Matthew Downhour

The Western Intellectual Behind China’s Distrust of the Crowd

Since the Cultural Revolution, China has feared and suppressed mass mobilization. But the coronavirus crisis is revealing this strategy’s fragility. The ghost of French thinker Gustave Le Bon haunts both the CCP and its discontented rivals.

Posted on February 19, 2020May 13, 2020 Simon Luo

How State Capacity Drives Industrialization

South Korea’s bold story of state-led development is how every wealthy country on Earth has industrialized. State capacity is necessary to coordinate long-term industrial investments.

Posted on February 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Ben Landau-Taylor and Oberon Dixon-Luinenburg

Jiang Shigong’s Chinese World Order

Chinese political theorist Jiang Shigong, accused of acting as the Party’s black hand in Hong Kong, has been quietly building a vision for a new world order that appears tolerant of difference—but with Chinese power at its center.

Posted on February 5, 2020May 13, 2020 Vincent Garton

From Santiago to the Atacama, Chile Is a Country on Fire

I originally planned a literary excursion to famously stable Chile. Instead, I came to a country engulfed in protests, where trains pass by the wreckage without a word. From Santiago and Valparaiso to the Atacama Desert, I delved into a conflict for the future.

Posted on January 29, 2020April 2, 2021 Sophie Zhao

How Liberal Civility Decays

Civility is critical to collective self-government. But the formal structure of self-government has no way to maintain it against political division and private interest. Civility can only be restored by some outside intervention.

Posted on January 23, 2020May 13, 2020 K. Christopher Dahlke

Who Has Authority in the American State?

The locus of legitimate authority in the American state is increasingly unclear. A reconfiguration of Marxist thought on the state reveals how elites interact with it, and also the state’s power to shape the elite itself.

Posted on January 8, 2020September 18, 2020 Nicolas Villarreal

How Local Control Can Accelerate Housing

There are times in politics where top-down, elite-driven mandates are necessary for the common good. Building communities is not one of them.

Posted on January 3, 2020May 13, 2020 John Myers and Nick Whitaker

America Needs a More Ambitious AI Strategy

The current American AI strategy is disorganized and unambitious. With no real innovation on the strategy front, the U.S. is just playing not to lose.

Posted on December 21, 2019May 13, 2020 Pasha Kamyshev

The University System Isn’t Going Anywhere

Universities have endured plague, population collapse, scandal, and even outlasted nations. Despite proclamations of the university system’s death, one thing is certain: it’s not going anywhere.

Posted on December 13, 2019May 13, 2020 Seth Largo

Mariana Mazzucato Has Reinvigorated the Most Important Battle in Economics

Ash Milton reviews Mariana Mazzucato’s book The Value of Everything. Mazzucato’s work confronts an overreaching financial sector and provides a powerful case for rebuilding state capacity.

Posted on November 21, 2019May 13, 2020 Ash Milton

Facebook’s Libra Is Half a Century Late and a Navy Short

Facebook’s global payment system, Libra, would usurp the role of the dollar, but it doesn’t have the hegemonic military, historical moment, or political utility to make that viable.

Posted on November 13, 2019May 13, 2020 Byrne Hobart

What No One Wants to Admit About Housing Politics

Real estate development in California has been frozen for decades. A new coalition is emerging to break homeowner resistance. But dishonesty from both sides prevents the reconciliation of social fabric and development, jeopardizing the future of American cities.

Posted on October 22, 2019May 13, 2020 Siavash Tahan

The American Dream Is Alive in China

American discourse doesn’t prepare you for how good life in China is becoming. It’s a sharp contrast to our own governance troubles. It feels like the American dream has moved to the other side of the world.

Posted on October 11, 2019May 13, 2020 Jean Fan

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