What Is Distributism?
Wide distribution of productive property as the foundation of economic dignity. A primer on the tradition, and why modern Ireland is one of its most …
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The "Isms" series
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What Is Christian Democracy?
The tradition that built post-war continental Europe and founded the EU. A primer on what it is, and why Ireland never built one despite having …
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What Is Populism?
Left populism, right populism, and a moving target. A primer on what populism actually is, what it gets right about democratic failure, and where it …
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What Is Fascism?
A specific 20th-century tradition, not a generic insult. A primer on what fascism actually is, what its regimes did, and where Irish politics sits relative …
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What Is Nationalism?
Civic, ethnic, cultural, post-colonial: a family of traditions sharing one name. A primer on what nationalism actually is, and where the current Irish conversation sits.
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What Is Republicanism? (And What Is Irish Republicanism?)
Three traditions sharing the name. A primer on classical, French, and specifically Irish republicanism, and on what Wolfe Tone's vision still has to recover.
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What Is Anarchism?
Not chaos. Not bombs. The political tradition built around cooperation without domination, the historical examples that worked, and the Irish current today.
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What Is Neoliberalism?
Not the absence of state, but a specific project to insulate markets from democratic majorities. A primer on the term, and why Ireland is one …
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What Is Communism?
A predicted classless society that never arrived, and the 20th-century regimes that claimed to be moving towards it. A primer on what the word actually …
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What Is Social Democracy?
The most successful left programme of the 20th century. A primer on the Nordic model, what it gets right, where it is vulnerable, and why …
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What Is Socialism?
Not state spending, not the welfare state, not captured by the Soviet regimes. A primer on what socialism actually means and the Irish strand running …
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What Is Conservatism?
Conservatism is not right-wing, not reactionary, not free-market ideology. A primer on the Burkean disposition, what it gets right, and where it actually runs in …
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