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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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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Yanis Varoufakis: The Economist Who Fought the Eurogroup, and the Theorist Who Says Capitalism Is Already Dead
The economist who fought the Eurogroup as Greek finance minister and now argues capitalism has been replaced by technofeudalism. Why both claims matter for Ireland.
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Mark Manson: Practical Philosophy for People Who Don't Read Philosophy
The blog-era self-help author who turned out to be the most useful Stoic translator working in English. Why the work matters more than its cover …
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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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George Monbiot: The Journalist Who Connected Land, Capital, and Climate
Forty years of the same long argument: land, capital, and climate as a single connected story. Why the analysis transfers to Irish farming, housing, and …
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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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Sir Roger Penrose: The Mathematician Who Insists Consciousness Is Real
The Nobel-laureate mathematical physicist whose work refuses to dissolve consciousness as a problem. Why his insistence matters even where his specific proposals are contested.
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Iain McGilchrist: The Master and the Emissary, and What Modern Culture Got Out of Order
The neuroscientist-philosopher whose Master and Emissary frame names what is wrong with the modern institutional-managerial style, and what Irish culture still has.
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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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