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Gruen: detox democracy through representation by random selection

Nicholas Gruen
June 14, 2022June 14, 2022
I use Troppo to make various notes for file as it were for reference in future. And on wanting to record something I found that...
Cultural Critique Democracy Sortition and citizens’ juries

The case for greater use of secret ballots in parliament

Nicholas Gruen
June 10, 2022
If we want politicians to actually represent their constituents, we need to free them from the pressure of toeing the party line. A week or...
Cultural Critique Democracy Sortition and citizens’ juries

The case for more secret ballots within our legislatures

Nicholas Gruen
June 1, 2022
This is a piece I did for Crikey I'd forgotten I'd written and hadn't put it up here. So now I have. The article was...
Cultural Critique Democracy Ethics Philosophy Political theory

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...
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...

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