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This is a Mad World...

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Why We Need to Seriously Talk About AI Can We Imagine a Better Social Media? Music Genres Are Not Political! Are the Music Charts Even Accurate?

The Link Between Moderate Politics and Freedom

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Why Moderates are Necessary for Free Speech Why Free Speech Must be at the Heart of the Political Restoration Why Both the Far-Left and the New Right are Very Similar In Praise of the Politics of Rejection My Disagreements with the Activist Left are about De-polarization and Free Speech The Non-Left, Non-Right Free Thinkers' Manifesto Why Moderates Don't Have Enough Faith in Ourselves  

End All Wars

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Keep believing. We will get there one day. Also please read this: How MAGA was Dragged Into Supporting Regime Change Wars  

Building the New Case for a Moderate Politics

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Why Moderates Should Stop Hiding Behind Procedure The Progressive Conservative Manifesto Why We Need to Bring Back Love and Compassion Why We Need to Call Out Free Speech Hypocrites Why Commitment to the Objective Truth is Important Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression Why Left-Wing Activism Still Needs to be Challenged My Case Against the Theory Left: A Restatement How to Reverse the Anti-Woke to Reactionary Pipeline                  

We Need to Talk About the Rise of Extremism. Seriously.

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We Need to Talk About the Red Pill Fallacy Why the Left and the Right both Ultimately Lead to Chaos The Fault in the Right: Why Worthy Ideals Lead to Bad Politics Why the Critical Theory-based Model of Change is Counterproductive We Need to Develop the Philosophy to Support a Centrist Politics We Actually Have Four Major Ideologies in Competition, Rather than Two The Populist Right Destroyed Everything I Cherish The Democrats Didn’t Take ‘Freedom’ Away from the Republicans The Reactionary Rabbit Hole of Competitive Outrage How Influencers Create False Consensus to Justify Authoritarianism

Why Battle for the Soul of Libertarianism

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Battle for the Soul of Libertarianism: Why we can’t cede the libertarian movement to authoritarian pretenders How the Dobbs Ruling Convinced Me to be ‘Libertarian’ Again This is How to Save Libertarianism from the Populist Right Why Allowing More Freedom is Generally the Morally Better Choice Social Libertarianism is the Only Antidote to Trumpism, Populism and Christian Nationalism What a Centrist Libertarian Program Looks Like in Practice Freedom Does Not Exist in a Vacuum: Towards a Broader Moral Libertarian Project            

The Case for a Positive Politics

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Towards a Politics of Meaning and Hope We need to start by acknowledging the limitations and opportunities of life What a Truly Positive Politics Looks Like The cultural hegemony of negative politics must be challenged and smashed The Role of Compassion in a Politics of Meaning and Hope It is the starting point of the comeback of positivity politics I Really Hate Dishonesty. Do You? You should, because dishonesty ruins the marketplace of ideas and makes rationality impossible From Anti-Woke to Woke Critical Why it’s time we break decisively from the negative recent past Reimagining What Progressive Means: Five Core Ideas Only a relentlessly positive vision can save us