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The Death of the Intellectual Space
Modern universities have destroyed what they used to foster, a space for the creation and debate of world changing ideas
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Modernity has Broken our Parties and Ideologies
Faced with new and old existential threats, our leaders are content to be deer caught in the headlights
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Today's Left Can't Govern, And It Doesn't Want to
Movements built solely on resistance are incapable of governing
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The Heirs Guard Against History
We need more founders, legacy institutions know its an existential threat to their relevance
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The 21st Century Nicomachean
We're inundated with conflicting messages, Aristotle can help us break through
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Why Outlaw Music Will Always Win
From Johnny Cash to XXXTentacion, authority is the antithesis of art
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Balaji Breaks Westphalia: A Review
Reviewing and expanding his idea of building a virtual nation
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Blake's Journal
How to describe it? Meditations meets my Twitter feed. I attempt to analyze the world around us and help break the shackles we feel as prisoners of the moment.

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