Politics

We spend days, months, even years looking for answers. People who find the answer are celebrated as geniuses, prophets and inventors. The world beats...

What's truly exceptional about our predicament is how the state of exception has escaped the confines of the detention centre and occupied Main Street...

If nations were programming languages, what language would they be?

The COVID crisis is a layer on top of a turn towards authoritarianism coming out of the 2008 economic crisis. At the same time, new opportunities for...

Why do such dementors exist?What's the point in a moral community having people who view their own community with suspicion, even malevolence?

What poetry is to language, philosophy is to thought, a craft that brings new concepts and ways of thinking into the scholarly disciplines.

If AI and Data spawn apocalyptic and utopian visions, we need a liberation theology to bring that vision to the people. That's the ambition of subvers...

There's still uncertainty over what will be unsettled: will it be the post-world war liberal order or will it be all of human history? I tend towards...

The division between politics and engineering is disappearing. Wicked problems should be solved simultaneously as engineering products and political p...

I am not saying the state will go away or even that it should, but it sure looks incapable of being the institutional form in which the wickedest prob...

Access to emotions is worth a lot of money. In fact, whether money buys love or not, it's been able to buy hate at scale - notice the electoral fortun...