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How To Address The Epidemic Of Poor Mental Health
Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of my favourite thinkers. I just wish he would write the book I keep meaning to write, because he would do a much better job of...
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The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast 2024
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80000 hours was an amazing podcast, full of interesting thinkers and ideas. This wrap up episode for their 2024 series is perhaps my favourite episode they ever did. Even though...
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The Century of the Self
Adam Curtis
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Adam Curtis is one of my favourite documentary film makers. I think the thesis at the centre of The Century of the Self is amongst the most important confronting modern...
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What they didn’t tell you about Critical Theory
Horkheimer & Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Critical Theory is the sort of thing 1% of people on the Internet argue with a different 1% about. The thinkers who created it as part of the Frankfurt School...
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Degrowth and our response to capitalism’s addiction to growth
Jason Hickel
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Jason Hickel's book "Less is More" is a call to halt the collective civilisational vehicle we are in as it heads towards an environmental brick wall. Here Jason outlines the...
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Hayek's Bastards: The Neo-liberal Roots of the Populist Right
Quinn Slobodian
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When Margaret Thatcher was asked what her party believed, legend has it that she slammed a copy of Friedrich von Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty" down on the table and...
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Goliath's Curse
Luke Kemp
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Goliath's Curse is a book by Luke Kemp that takes its name from what Luke calls large societies - Goliaths. After an exhaustive study of human societies spanning years, Luke...
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Meditations on Moloch
Scott Alexander
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Blending Allen Ginsberg's searing poem Moloch, with a discussion of how systems can come to resemble evil gods, Meditations on Moloch is simply a must listen/read.
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