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A publication by @RadxChange exploring new ideas about economics, democracy and the relationship between technology and power.
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is live! ✨. A publication by @RadxChange, exploring new ideas about economics, democracy, and the relationship between technology and power. If our societies are irreversibly technological, we must steer technology itself towards the common good, rather.
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RT @PluralityInst: New article in @CombinationsMag 'In Defense of Secular Religions' - discusses how modern ideals of scientific & moral p….
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Modern ideals of scientific and moral progress promise that rational inquiry can cleanse our beliefs of worldly bias. The history of those ideals suggests that this is neither possible nor desirable.
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RT @nemocentric: My latest, for @CombinationsMag & @RadxChange, in which I argue modernity - both in science and ethics - can be seen as an….
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RT @CombinationsMag: Modern ideals of scientific and moral progress promise that rational inquiry can cleanse our beliefs of worldly bias.….
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Modern ideals of scientific and moral progress promise that rational inquiry can cleanse our beliefs of worldly bias. The history of those ideals suggests that this is neither possible nor desirable.
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Modern ideals of scientific and moral progress promise that rational inquiry can cleanse our beliefs of worldly bias. The history of those ideals suggests that this is neither possible nor desirable. @nemocentric on secular modernity's sacred origins.
combinationsmag.com
Modern ideals of scientific and moral progress promise that rational inquiry can cleanse our beliefs of worldly bias. The history of those ideals suggests that this is neither possible nor desirable.
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“Abundance has little explicit to say about democratic contestation and the gaining and losing of power. The book invokes the importance of the public interest without properly explaining how to figure out what that is.” - Henry Farrell
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RT @PluralityInst: The Case Against Planetary Governance: Democracy is in crisis. New piece by Wolfgang Streeck for @CombinationsMag explo….
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Democracy is in crisis. Wolfgang Streeck thinks we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike.
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"How responsive network technologies can make politics to social needs depends on who owns and designs them. Technology per se is not an answer to anything.". Wolfgang Streeck in Combinations.
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Democracy is in crisis. Wolfgang Streeck thinks we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike.
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Democracy is in crisis. Wolfgang Streeck thinks we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike.
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To remake globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society, we must recognize theology’s foundational role in shaping political order.
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Every political innovation requires, first of all, a corresponding transformation in the cosmos. To remake globalization from a gangster racket into a genuine political society, we must recognize...
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RT @CombinationsMag: What is the relationship between the grand narratives that have guided humanity and the concrete institutions and tech….
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RT @PluralityInst: The Catholic Church uses voting—not appointment or inheritance—to choose the Pope. In Conclave Democracy, Matt Prewitt a….
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What divine authority can teach us about democratic principles.
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Listen to Weiler expand on the piece's ideas on the @RadxChange podcast:
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When states ban religious symbols, they're imposing secularism while claiming objectivity. J.H.H. Weiler reveals how Europe's constitutional diversity offers a better model.
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Perhaps freedom of religion is best served not by the expulsion of religious symbols from public spaces, but a more flexible form of tolerance.
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Among the charges against democracy, the claim that it undercuts stable authority holds special prominence. So why, asks @m_t_prewitt, does the Catholic Church—arguably the world’s stablest and most authoritative institution—choose its leader by vote?.
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What divine authority can teach us about democratic principles.
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The project of abundance had its beginnings in a fight that was broader than disputes between centrist and left-leaning liberals. It will perhaps have its greatest value in getting an even bigger debate started on sound footing.
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To shift American politics onto more productive grounds, the abundance agenda needs a broader cross-ideological debate than critics or advocates alike have allowed.
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