How is the Covid era affecting the politics of our time?
The pandemic is wreaking terrible damage, accelerating pre-existing, dehumanising trends. Explore our latest selection of high quality articles and podcasts assembled to help you navigate some of the seismic changes going on. In this edition we focus on the following areas: the UK context, the ongoing American crisis, divisive ideologies, Big Tech, media censorship. Our selection is not meant to be definitiive.
[assembled 13/2/21]
NAVIGATING FROM A UK CONTEXT
- Bruno Macaes vaccine capabability: why the EU can’t leverage new technologies
- Matthew Goodwin How Covid will shape 2021
- Jessica Studdart Councils have found new ways of working with communities
- David Robinson Lessons we learned in 2020 and what they mean for 2021
- Robert Tombs The Brexit deal: the end of the beginning
- Ian Byrne Supporting residents to grow their own food
- Maurice Glasman Roger Scruton – a couragous friend who loved his country
- Community Links Being in a Good Place: Investing in Social Infrastructure
- A Better Way Time for a Change report
- Melanie Phillips There is an ancient way to national unity: covenant
- Institute of Fiscal Studies Deaton Review of Inequalities
DANGEROUS IDEOLOGIES AT PLAY
- Andy Ngo Well-meaning “useful idiots” conned into supporting Antifa-BLM (video)
- Justin Webb If you hate your country you cannot change it
- Hannah Elka Meyers Anti-Semitism is Growing, Fueled by Both the Left and Right
- Ralph Leonard “Western values” are the real path towards black freedom
- Christopher Rufo The teaching of the “oppression matrix” in the classroom
- Peter Boghossian How to Have Impossible Conversations (podcast)
- Respublica Webinar on post-liberal schooling in the UK
- Agnes Poirier Why French teachers are afraid
- James Lindsay “Repressive Tolerance” (Herbert Marcuse’s 1965 essay) a four-part podcast unpacking an influential ideology of our time.
THE DOMINATING POWERS OF CAPITAL, BIG TECH AND MEDIA
- Jacob Siegel The interconnected media-administrative-political elite
- Andrew Doyle What are Silicon Valley’s criteria for banning YouTube content?
- Bari Weiss Funders’ and communal leaders’ alliances with a dangerous ideology
- Joshua Mitchell de Toqueville’s premonition of this age (podcast)
- Ed West Facebook censors award-winning journalist for criticising the WHO
- Armin Rosen Media lobbies for government control over what we see, hear & read
THE ONGOING AMERICAN CRISIS AFFECTS US ALL
- Michael Lind Storming the Capitol and the Five Crises of the American Regime
- Ian Birrell The WHO’s Covid shame and the appeasement of Beijing
- Lee Smith The deal between the American elite and China has a precedent
- Michael Lind The New National American Elite
- Alana Newhouse Everything Is Broken: make a friend and don’t talk politics
- Molly Ball The Secret Shadow Campaign That “Saved” the 2020 Election
- Jonathan Haidt The political chaos isn’t over yet (video)
- Joel Kotkin The Collapse of California and The Coming of Neo Feudalism (video)
- Glenn H. Reynolds GameStop insurgency ‘Little Guys’ against the hedge funds
A selection of articles on racial justice can be found here
This was first shared via our Lent 2021 mailing.
