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Academy of Ideas Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us [...] Read more

Academy of Ideas Why Stupid People are Destroying Society - The Laws of Human Stupidity [...] Read more

Edward Bernays’ Propaganda (1928) [...] Read more

We live in a world saturated with images, representations, and simulations. But what happens when these copies and imitations become more real to us than the original? This is the essence of the [...] Read more

Hannah Arendt [...] Read more

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone. Mental Health [...] Read more

Politics Politicians who exhibit 'dark' personality traits such as narcissism, psychopathy or Machiavellianism contribute to increasing affective polarization among citizens. This is the conclusion [...] Read more

The Final Election?" "Democracy is not guaranteed. It dies when power goes unchecked, when lies replace truth, and when fear erases courage. If we don't defend it now, there may not be a next [...] Read more

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times. He has covered numerous wars across the decades, written [...] Read more

“The heart has got to open in a fundamental way,” Leonard Cohen sang in his timeless ode to democracy — an insight not blunted by romantic mysticism but, like every Cohen lyric, honed by the [...] Read more