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One Year Later, We Still Have No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Destroying ecosystems and the environment “ is the only truly sustainable vaccine against the next pandemic. In other words, it’s time that we stop looking for intelligent life on Mars and start manifesting it here on planet earth” (Friedman 2021).
What Conspiracy Theorists Don’t Believe
Concerning conspiracy theories, “When someone has dismissed the obvious facts, repeating them will not persuade him to see sense. But when people are given time and space to explain themselves, they may start to spot the gaps in their own knowledge or arguments” (Tim Hartford, 2021).
Green Markets Won’t Save Us
“Although markets are uniquely powerful mechanisms for conveying information and altering behavior, they are ultimately social systems that rest on incomplete and ever-shifting foundations. That makes them an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change” (Katharina Pistor, 2021).
The Real Guardrails of Democracy Are Its Citizens
“A citizenry with less interest in power than in preserving democracy is the safeguard of last resort...the problem of polarization in the United States began not with voters but with political elites who drove their bases to extremes. The more directly responsive government can be made to the people, the safer democracy will be” (Jonathan Schlefer, 2021).
The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided
“Tech companies...recognize that inaction toward certain crucial types of misinformation puts them at greater risk of regulation...yet, if any single platform acts too forcefully, it risks provoking the wrath of the hyper-partisan influencers...Social-media companies find themselves in the position of having to act decisively and collectively—and yet, collective action begets further allegations of collusion” (Renée DiResta, 2021).
How to Renew America's Democracy
“The task of fixing America’s democracy enmeshes both voting in the Senate and voting in the country at large. When politics is infected by bad faith, that can make the situation worse. If the rules of politics became the main field of combat, the system itself could come to seem even more illegitimate to voters” (The Economist, 2021).
Trump and the Trapped Country
“If the fear behind the strongman thesis was the eclipse of democracy, we still have reason for concern—less because of a tyrant looming on the right than because of a paralysis of political agency across the board. The signal quality of Trump’s Presidency was not how unusual it was but how emblematic it was” (Corey Robin, 2021).
Europe Turns Toward Citizen Engagement
“U.S. President Joe Biden is seeking to gather like-minded nations into a geopolitical club defined not by what democracy is, can be or must become, but by what it is not. Yet, while all authoritarian states are undemocratic, all democracies are troubled in their own ways” (Nathan Gardels, 2021).
Beyond Ego and Alter: Enlarged Democratic Deliberation
“This article addresses a specific objection to deliberative democracy” that argues “deliberative democracy is a naive project, impotent in the face of the dynamics of power prevailing in real politics” and counters that “ deliberative democracy can increase its effectiveness in the face of actors who...reject democratic deliberation” (Piromalli, 2021).
Populism, nationalism and revisionist foreign policy
“This article introduces a framework for mapping the effects of populism and nationalism in foreign policy”, and “concludes that nationalism has greater destructive effects for the international system when combined with populism.” (International Affairs, Volume 97, Issue 2, March 2021, Pages 323–343).
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