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Category: <span>Future of Democracy</span>

Category: Future of Democracy

What We Learned About Each Other

What We Learned About Each Other

By Chris Ladd January 23, 2022 January 23, 2022

What I hate most about the past half decade is what we learned about each other.

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What Republicans’ Kool Aid Moment Means for the Rest of Us

What Republicans’ Kool Aid Moment Means for the Rest of Us

By Chris Ladd May 2, 2020 May 3, 2020

We do not have to become a cult to defeat a cult.

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The Biological Problem Behind Politics

The Biological Problem Behind Politics

By Chris Ladd January 21, 2020 January 21, 2020

Politics is the story of our social and technological evolution struggling to extend beyond our innate biological limits.

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Amazon’s New Homeless Shelter

Amazon’s New Homeless Shelter

By Chris Ladd December 1, 2019 December 1, 2019

A corporate homeless shelter is not a feel-good moment. It’s a warning.

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An Image Is Worth a Thousand Retweets

An Image Is Worth a Thousand Retweets

By Chris Ladd September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019

There is much more in this photograph than meets the eye.

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Nationalism Is a Good Idea That’s Past Its Prime

Nationalism Is a Good Idea That’s Past Its Prime

By Chris Ladd July 7, 2019 July 7, 2019

Nationalism worked because it let us build a far bigger mental picture of “us” than we’d ever before envisioned. It is failing now because it can’t keep pace with the power of newer social innovations, like the corporation, capable of even greater scale and reach.

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The Long View

The Long View

By Chris Ladd June 2, 2019 June 3, 2019

Look closely at our dilemma, and you see not decline, but leadership. We are being buffeted by the first waves of a storm spreading around the world. We’re not worst, but merely first.

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Democracy In An Age Of Transience

Democracy In An Age Of Transience

By Chris Ladd April 23, 2019 April 23, 2019

Can a democracy organized around the mediating influence of social capital survive the rise of transience? Can this system function when so few of its brightest, most talented and successful people can name a single local politician? Perhaps, but across the world the results so far don’t look promising.

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How Democracies Die

How Democracies Die

By Chris Ladd February 17, 2019 February 18, 2019

Trump’s personal repulsiveness, criminality, and incompetence deliver a second chance not offered to Italians and Germans in the 30’s.

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Corporate Class Consciousness

Corporate Class Consciousness

By Chris Ladd October 23, 2018 October 25, 2018

Now that the government at the center of the “Free World” has been bought off by a corrupt global kleptocrats, who is standing up for liberal democratic values? Corporations, of course. Get used to it, because this is the strange new shape of liberal democracy.

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