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In Britain, half a million people regularly go up to a week without seeing anybody
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Only 13% of the world’s population enjoys a free press
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Author of "Kill All Normies", Angela Nagle discusses how public discourse has never been as idiotic, cruel and irrational as it is now
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Social media echo chambers are harming democracy
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Why was the recovery after the 2008 financial crisis swifter than after the Great Depression? International co-operation helped, says
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My oped in
@TheEconomist#OpenFuture@ITCnews “Multilateral co-operation is frequently derided as naïve idealism. In fact, the opposite is true: it is a matter of cold self-interest for countries’ future economic and security prospects”https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/1040086159450402817?s=21 … -
We should not expect or require China to be Western, argues
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A free press is increasingly becoming a luxury limited to the West
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The Economist asks the Canadian psychologist what is wrong with modern liberalism
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At its core,
#OpenFuture remakes the case for liberal values. But what liberalism is, whether it is in crisis and what its future looks like has been widely contested. A thread 1/7Show this thread -
Today I wrote to
@TheEconomist to tell them I could not speak at#OpenFuture if Bannon was to be involved. I'm so pleased the New Yorker has seen sense on this & I very much hope The Economist will now do likewise - I'd still love to do the panel (cc@PennyRed )https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1036741653975904256 …Show this thread -
"The greater the shock to the system", argues Walter Scheidel, "the easier it becomes to reduce privilege at the top"
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Yuval Noah Harari asks why immigrants should be forced to adhere to some imaginary European identity that few Europeans actually live up to
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Transgender viewpoint: Homophobia and transphobia are not the same, but both are used by those who seek to undo equality, argues
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"Free trade increases the size of the pie. But it doesn’t mean that everyone is better off"
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National stability and prosperity demand that governments co-operate to build global resilience, writes Arancha González
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Keynes often warned of the dangers of sacrificing present well-being for an uncertain future
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The Economist sat down with “dinosaur liberal” and former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to discuss the greatest threat to open societies
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Katherine Krem, originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, has won our Open Ideas essay contest. Read Katherine's essay here
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In the late 19th century America suffered from similar problems to those of today. Rather than dying, liberalism reformed itself
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