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Fast foodification: what is it, what’s driving it, how do we stop it?

Nicholas Gruen
May 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43vCEju5Ck In this discussion, Peyton Bowman and I discuss my term ‘fast-foodification’. I coined the word trying to describe modern politics. The techniques used by politicians...
Cultural Critique Democracy History Politics - national Public and Private Goods Sortition and citizens’ juries

Include and compromise — don’t divide and conquer: Tendrils of Hope from Australia.

Nicholas Gruen
May 27, 2022August 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtN1nIHXSY I really enjoyed this conversation with my friend Peyton Bowman which celebrates the possibility that Australia might be able to show the world how...
Cultural Critique Philosophy Political theory Social Society

Why AI isn’t coming for us any time soon

Nicholas Gruen
May 27, 2022May 27, 2022
As some of you may know, I am now publishing a weekly substack of articles I've found interesting on the net and in some cases...
Democracy Political theory Politics - national

Australia enters the post-party phase of Western democracy

Sam Roggeveen
May 26, 2022May 28, 2022
Originally published on The Interpreter. Two federal elections ago, in 2016, the primary vote for the Labor Party and the Liberal-Nationals coalition reached record lows,...
Climate Change Politics - national

High-education voters desert the Liberals

David Walker
May 22, 2022May 24, 2024
[caption id="attachment_36198" align="alignleft" width="768"] The 1 in 20: Paul Fletcher will become the sole remaining Liberal member in the 20 federal seats with the highest...
Cultural Critique Education Indigenous Literature Social Policy

Critic swallows book

Nicholas Gruen
May 20, 2022June 3, 2022
The Sydney Book Review is my kind of book review. It's online and free. Ever since I joined the blogging revolution in 2005 it's seemed...
Cultural Critique Economics and public policy Methodology Philosophy

How Economics Found Science …and Lost its Subject Matter

Nicholas Gruen
May 17, 2022July 29, 2022
Herewith an article that was published by INET a couple of weeks ago, and Evonomics more recently. I'm republishing it here as it's my 'blog...

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