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Elite Capture: how Christianity wrote the playbook

Nicholas Gruen
July 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupVJkTnIqY This is one of the best podcast interviews we’ve done. We discuss Peter Heather’s marvellous book “Christendom: the triumph of a Religion”. It covers...
Democracy History Sortition and citizens’ juries

Why ESG is a puppet show and what to do about it

Nicholas Gruen
July 11, 2023July 11, 2023
https://youtu.be/aBTFQ6wwlq8 The more I've thought about sortition or as I call it "representation by sampling" the more profound I find the ways it differs from...
Cultural Critique Democracy Isegoria Sortition and citizens’ juries

Four ways to fix the world

Nicholas Gruen
June 3, 2023July 20, 2024
https://youtu.be/DxcE_PC5rgc A while back I condensed a bunch of things I have been thinking about into four ideas which I explored with Peyton Bowman in...
Democracy Sortition and citizens’ juries

Engines of oligarchy: with Hugh Pope

Nicholas Gruen
May 28, 2023May 30, 2023
One of my favourite podcasts with journalist, scholar and gentleman Hugh Pope. Hugh has just brought to publication a book written by his father in...
Democracy Indigenous Politics - national Race and indigenous

Voice analysis

Chris Lloyd
May 25, 2023May 25, 2023
This post is rather long. If you want a point form summary, scroll down to the bottom. Secondly, this post does not represent the views...
Democracy History Political theory Politics - international Sortition and citizens’ juries War and military

Understanding the present by listening to the past: Walter Lippmann’s “The Public Philosophy”

Nicholas Gruen
April 27, 2023April 29, 2023
One way to get beneath the surface of what's going on is to read people who were writing about issues, as they emerged rather than...
Best From Elsewhere Democracy Politics - international

John Gray on Andrew Sullivan’s Dishcast

Nicholas Gruen
March 6, 2023March 7, 2023
  I recommend the first 15 or 20 minutes of this podcast. Defs worth the listen as John Gray explains where he comes from —...

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