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Tag: politics

  • How anti-racism strategies can backfire

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    Jonathan Morgan
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    While reading about refugee children in Sweden, I came across a study by Ann Runfors which looked at the way that schools on the multicultural margins of Swedish society instil identity in those they teach. What Runfors found was that while the schools she visited worked hard to avoid emphasising the differences between people, with…

  • Why silencing Jordan B. Peterson does little for our public debate

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    Jonathan Morgan
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    I grew up thinking that universities were places where ideas could be discussed, challenged, contested, and ultimately improved. I thought that they were places where anyone was welcome and where rigour of thought and evidence were valued more highly than political biases. In this marketplace of debates, I assumed that populism and partisanship would be…

  • Antifragility and Modern Nation States

    Antifragility and Modern Nation States

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    Jonathan Morgan
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    I’m reading a book at the moment that really has me thinking – Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (as recommended to me by @smn) I’ve found the ideas in the book so engaging that I’m going to write about some of them before I’ve even finished reading it, since I think I’ve got a handle on at least the core of…