Archedelia

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What is ideology?
Commitment to abstractions leads to intolerance of reality
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The reality crisis
And how it bears on self-government. A conversation with NS Lyons, author of The Upheaval
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Anatomy of the consensus-borg
How is narrative discipline kept?
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Making sense of the DMV experience
How multicultural bureaucracy works under one-party rule in California. Also Brad Pitt.
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Automation, anti-humanism, the politics of emergency, the battle of the sexes, the possibility of Christian manliness...
A flurry of engagements
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Gratitude and the modern condition
Our obsession with control obscures the goodness of what is given
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Archedelia
Archedelia
Toward a political theory of the present.
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