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  2. In Britain, half a million people regularly go up to a week without seeing anybody

  3. Sep 12

    Only 13% of the world’s population enjoys a free press

  4. Author of "Kill All Normies", Angela Nagle discusses how public discourse has never been as idiotic, cruel and irrational as it is now 7/7

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  5. Social media echo chambers are harming democracy

  6. Why was the recovery after the 2008 financial crisis swifter than after the Great Depression? International co-operation helped, says

  7. My oped in “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”

  8. We should not expect or require China to be Western, argues

  9. Sep 7

    A free press is increasingly becoming a luxury limited to the West

  10. The Economist asks the Canadian psychologist what is wrong with modern liberalism

  11. At its core, 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 1/7

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  12. Sep 3

    Today I wrote to to tell them I could not speak at 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 )

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  13. "The greater the shock to the system", argues Walter Scheidel, "the easier it becomes to reduce privilege at the top"

  14. Yuval Noah Harari asks why immigrants should be forced to adhere to some imaginary European identity that few Europeans actually live up to

  15. Transgender viewpoint: Homophobia and transphobia are not the same, but both are used by those who seek to undo equality, argues

  16. "Free trade increases the size of the pie. But it doesn’t mean that everyone is better off"

  17. National stability and prosperity demand that governments co-operate to build global resilience, writes Arancha González

  18. Keynes often warned of the dangers of sacrificing present well-being for an uncertain future

  19. The Economist sat down with “dinosaur liberal” and former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to discuss the greatest threat to open societies 6/7

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  20. Katherine Krem, originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, has won our Open Ideas essay contest. Read Katherine's essay here

  21. In the late 19th century America suffered from similar problems to those of today. Rather than dying, liberalism reformed itself 3/7

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