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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Yuval Noah Harari: The Stories We Believe Are What Holds Us Together
The big-history populariser whose strengths and weaknesses both deserve careful naming. An honest read of what Harari gets right, what he doesn't, and what it …
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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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Daniel Schmachtenberger: The Civilisation We Built Is Not The One We Can Steer
The civilisational-systems thinker whose meta-crisis frame names the connection between the climate, AI, geopolitical, and democratic-coordination crises modern politics misses.
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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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Grace Blakeley: We Already Have Planning. Just Not For Us.
The young socialist economist arguing that modern capitalism is not a free market. Read in Irish terms, the analysis of vulture funds and corporate-tax dependency …
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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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Gary Stevenson: The Trader Who Bet Against Recovery, and Won
The Citibank rates trader who got rich betting against recovery, walked away, and now argues that wealth inequality is the central economic problem of our …
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What Is Liberalism?
Classical, social, and neoliberal: three traditions sharing one name. A primer on what each actually means, and which strands run through Irish politics today.
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