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2025

08 AugThe Great ResentmentWhen the West Lost Its Place in Line

2024

20 NovTrump's New Coalition: A Blueprint for Authoritarian PlutocracyHow a fusion of MAGA loyalists, disaffected workers, young men, and tech billionaires could reshape American democracy

15 NovTwo Trumpy Lessons: Digital Echo Chambers and Political TribalismAn Easter Weekend reckoning with polarised politics viscerally taught me two things

05 MayThe left has no clue about cultureIt only talks in terms of economic policy

2023

26 NovThe EU is set up to failOn the electoral success of Wilders and the PVV in the Netherlands

14 AugA citizen of somewhereOn the need to feel one belongs

06 MarHigh-status social media users have a license to misinform

23 JanRecommender algorithms optimised for engagement -- it's complicated (links: 1)Polarisation on Twitter, depression via Facebook, Capitalism is not the (only) problem and more.

06 JanHas the Internet really lead to increased conflict?No smoking gun, but do we need one?

2022

06 JulBack to romance?Re-igniting the rage against the machine