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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...
Democracy Philosophy Political theory Politics - international Sortition and citizens’ juries

Fighting political polarisation

Nicholas Gruen
February 18, 2023February 21, 2023
From this week's Substack of mine. Thomas B. Edsall has an important writeup of research into reducing political polarisation. But to me it seems to...
Democracy Ethics Political theory Politics - international Sortition and citizens’ juries Web and Government 2.0

Polarisation and the Case for Citizens’ Juries

Nicholas Gruen
October 24, 2022November 16, 2022
Cross posted from Quillette from 16 Feb 2019, but now behind a paywall. When a conversation is not a conversation: party political discourse in the...
Democracy Economics and public policy Innovation Philosophy Political theory Politics - national Sortition and citizens’ juries Web and Government 2.0

The David Solomon Lecture: Government 2.0 a couple of years on . . .

Nicholas Gruen
September 28, 2022September 28, 2022
https://youtu.be/ftssK9b8WFI Finding a formatting mess when I looked this up on Troppo, I've reposted it here for the record. I'm a bit embarrassed by my...
Democracy History Sortition and citizens’ juries

Elections are all about competition right? (They weren’t way back when)

Nicholas Gruen
July 16, 2022July 19, 2024
As part of my recent fascination with competitive and ‘de-competitive’ merit selection, I’ve been looking at the origins of both parliamentary and presidential elections. Intriguingly...
Democracy History Political theory Sortition and citizens’ juries

An Alt-left?

Nicholas Gruen
June 24, 2022June 25, 2022
https://youtu.be/gYKPWkvTRIg I What is it with James Burnham? I associate him — via Curtis Yarvin — with the alt-right. And Burnham is the founding text...
Cultural Critique Democracy Political theory Politics - international Politics - national Sortition and citizens’ juries

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...

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