Cass Sunstein and the rise and fall of nudge theory
In February 2010, a few months before he became prime minister, David Cameron delivered a Ted talk in California titled…
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger on the Knowledge Economy
The key idea in Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s new book, The Knowledge Economy, is compellingly simple: the problem with the global economy…
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Chris Leslie interview: Labour have “massively underestimated” a new centrist party
The Independent Group MP argues that the project isn’t doomed to electoral failure.
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Bruno Latour: the philosopher fighting to save science from itself
In his latest book Down to Earth, the French thinker warns that facts alone are no defence against populism.
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Richard Dawkins interview: “I’d rather people read my books than my tweets”
The atheist and God Delusion author on Brexit, Islamophobia and why he fears his social media presence has damaged his reputation.
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Anand Giridharadas interview: Why elite philanthro-capitalists do more harm than good
The author of Winners Take All on how the “fake change” offered by billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg perpetuates “systems of exclusion…
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Slavoj Žižek interview: “Trump created a crack in the liberal centrist hegemony”
The Marxist philosopher on why catastrophe gives him hope.
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Jonathan Haidt interview: “I’m Jewish but I want my kids to read Mein Kampf”
The social psychologist discusses his book The Coddling of the American Mind and the age of identity wars.
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