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This is not a post I ever wanted to write but it’s time to tie up loose ends before starting the new year. I’ve left DiEM25 and I’d like to explain to you why that is and what I hope DiEM will do differently in the future if it is to realise its tremendous potential to be a...
Aral Balkan
"While this shows one individual soldier's act, it is made possible by criminal orders from the top that authorized use of lethal force against unarmed protesters that has resulted in hundreds being shot."
Jake Johnson
This paper by David Schweickart, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in...
David Schweickart
Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives
SoFA Coop Circle
In his keynote at the Burning Man European Leadership Summit, Ronan Harrington calls for a politics that recognises the one thing that we all have in common: our vulnerability.
30 min
For the past two years, Alter Ego has been gathering new cultural and political leaders to rethink politics and our vision of progress. This is a behind the scenes of our first gathering in 2016, where we explored spirituality as a transformative source of political renewal...
4 min
Ideology Dies One Small Social Experiment at a Time
Max Borders
People don't get "woke" overnight. Sometimes we have to be patient and help them get there.
9 min
In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.
Eli Friedman and Andi Kao
Professor Haidt argues that conflicts arise at many American universities today because they are pursuing two potentially incompatible goals: truth and social justice. While Haidt thinks both goals are important, he maintains that they can come into conflict. According to...
67 min
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right, or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. Jonathan Haidt studies how...
18 min
In my Situational Assessment: 2017, I quoted a post from Reddit:
“The Blue Church is panicking because they’ve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not
Jordan Hall
Let me admit, I grow weary of hearing gripes and grievances. I don’t say this to somehow deny atrocities that have been committed against people in the past nor am I blind to injustices that continue to be perpetuated in the present. Yet there is a big difference between...
Teodrose Fikre
Randomly shooting into crowds is more than just threatening people with death. It is a means of terrorizing the dissidents.
Juan Cole
Beware the architects of our neofeudalism calling on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income
Chris Hedges
Atlas of Utopias is part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation that demonstrate that another world is possible, and already exists.
Sol Trumbo and Nick Buxton
Jewish Voice for Peace is horrified by the Israeli response to the #GreatReturnMarch, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Gaza are marching peacefully inside of Gaza. At the time of this writing, at least eight Palestinians have been killed and over 500 injured
Jewish Voice for Peace
“The power of Fannie Lou Hamer compels you!”
Max S. Gordon
In response to past essays I’ve written on identity politics, I’ve been asked to provide a deeper analysis of how identity politics function outside the liberal politics I have so far focused on. For the most part–likely owing to the divisiveness so present in this country–my...
Pat Mosley
How can liberals and progressives learn to feel differently about identity?
Gregory Leffel
Metamodern mindfulness offers a new way of thinking about the ideological conflicts of the past.
Gregory Leffel
(The following is an excerpt from King’s book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” — Part 5 of chapter 5 titled “Where Do We Go”)
There is only one general proposal that I would like to examine here, because it deals with the abolition of poverty within this nation...
Matt Orfalea
President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. After 9/11, Haspel ran an illegal black site in Thailand where a man was tortured, and she later wrote a memo calling for the destruction of proof of such “enhanced...
Ariel Dorfman
What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election of Trump. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social and traditional media, over dinner conversations, at the office and on the bus with complete strangers. And, as...
Kazu Haga
The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
Connor Kilpatrick
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
Paul Buchheit
In this interview with the senior editor and founder of The Real News Network, Paul Jay, we examine the threats facing humanity today, Russiagate and what issues independent media outlets should be prioritizing.
19 min
This topic has been around for a while, but lately it seems like there are actual attempts at dialogue happening, and so I want to contribute to that.
Pat Mosley
While a White Nationalist claims that doing non-white things is tainting the race, the social justice activist claims that doing non-white things is theft. The end result is the same: a pure, untainted, culturally-distinct white race. White Nationalism and Woke Nationalism...
Rhyd Wildermuth
Collective action to right wrongs or help the suffering under neoliberal ideology is wrong, unfeasible, or some combination of the two.
Noah Berlatsky
Peter Joseph gives a "structuralist" perspective on the nature of modern socioeconomic inequality, pointing out failures within the March 19th, 2018 Town Hall discussion held by Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Warren, Darrick Hamilton and other guests.
52 min
Asad Haider ends the first part of his essay on the problems of liberal identity politics with a powerful accusation:
“Fredrik deBoer asks, ‘Does it matter to Resnikoff that the most acid critiques of identity politics I know of have come from writers of color?’ It is a...
Dan Husman
I didn’t pay much attention to Jordan Peterson when I first heard about him. The standard line on Peterson among liberals and leftists was that he is yet another right-wing hero of young, white men, but less extreme than those on the full-fledged alt-right. While this may be...
Vincent Kelley
Forever Jameses examines, in extraordinary detail, the origin of the term "Cultural Marxism."
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69 min
Nonrepresentative Democracy at the Dark Heart of Globalization
Brent Cooper
Classical liberals and the alt-right share common grievances with the left, use similar terminology and agree on common narratives. This makes moderate classical liberals susceptible to being radicalized by the ideas of the far right. While this is far from inevitable and...
17 min
The Canadian clinical psychologist and university professor has become hugely popular for his 'anti-PC' views and is beloved of many on the alt-right. He's appealing for a number of reasons, most of them connected to the left-wing people he opposes
Slavoj Zizek
Debunking the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory once and for all.
15 min
Abstraction comes in countless forms, but beware the vicious variety, which corrupts our thinking. A ‘vicious abstraction’ is a misrepresentation of an abstraction. You’d be amazed how far little white lies can go. Suffice it to say empires can be built on them. But suppose...
Brent Cooper
They’ve been mocked as deplorables, but they’ve changed the face of presidential politics in 2016 — and possibly far beyond. Fusion spent months interviewing the real people fueling the Trump candidacy, and letting them explain how they got where they are.
45 min
Fusion teams up with “Kill All Normies” author Angela Nagle to examine the social and political forces that have emboldened white nationalists in the age of Trump, in this follow-up to the Emmy-nominated documentary: The Naked Truth-Trumpland.
43 min
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
10 min
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it’s called Politeness.
7 min
A specter is haunting North America — the specter of postmodernism. Or at least, that’s what Jordan Peterson would have you believe.
Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has entered into an unholy alliance with all the powers of the alt-right to...
Shuja Haider
Whether it’s assault rifles, racial justice, immigration or fossil fuels, the country is rocked by conflicting narratives and rising passions. In a recent national poll, 70 percent of Americans say the political divide is at least as big as during the Vietnam War.
George Lakey
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take...
Mark Fisher
During the four days I spent in West Virginia, I was repeatedly thanked for coming to support teachers from out of state, though mostly people seemed a bit surprised that I cared. Perhaps it was because I arrived at the exact moment that most of the national media was leaving...
Kate Doyle Griffiths
Political and ideological differences prevent us from seeing that our hopes and frustrations are interconnected.
Teodrose Fikre
Is “the Left” eating itself? Watch the Unsafe Space Tour panel discussion at New York Law School, featuring Professors Bret Weinstein, Laura Kipnis, Angus Johnston, and author Brendan O'Neill. Moderated by Tom Slater (of Spiked Magazine).
95 min
Nationality feels powerful, especially today. But the idea of identifying with millions of strangers just based on borders is relatively new. The Interpreter explains why it was invented — and how it changed the world.
6 min
A very objective, scientific, rational inquiry, by ContraPoints.
16 min
This Zero Books video looks at Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, but is mostly a response to Jordan Peterson's lecture on Political Correctness for The Speakers Action Group.
18 min
Jordan Peterson: "I was invited to Queen's University March 5 to give the inaugural lecture/discussion of the Liberty Lecture series, funded by Faculty of Law alumnus, Gregory Piasetzki (LLB 1980). Dr. Bruce Pardy (https://law.queensu.ca/faculty-re
106 min
Trump supporters and immigrants come together to find middle ground. Together, they discuss President Trump's policies and media bias in portraying both sides.
16 min
What causes depression and anxiety? I have been a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years and have seen hundreds of patients suffering from both. In my experience, some factors are obvious. People who suffer from depression and anxiety have experienced...
Michael Bader
In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update.
While many things have changed in the world in t
Jordan Hall
David Fuller: “A Glitch in the Matrix" is about the relationship between truth and reality, the ideological blind spots of the mainstream media and the existential threat of polarisation — all seen through the lens of Jordan Peterson’s recent viral interview with Cathy Newman...
55 min
A Review of David Gilbert's 'Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically'
Jordan Peterson sits down with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley to talk about political polarization, Pepe the Frog and his support from the far right. He has a new book called 12 Rules for Life: an Antidote to Chaos. Peterson sparked controversy in 2016, when he spoke against a...
11 min