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Social Capitalism
“The role of social capital became obvious during the pandemic, which has fallen hardest on those countries and communities with the least amount of mutual trust and solidarity. With many of the crisis-era changes in working arrangements likely to persist, social connections will hold the key to future growth” (d Campanella, 2021).
The Rise of Insurgent Europeanism
“Civil society in Europe and its attitudes towards the European project have changed dramatically in the past decade of multiple crises. This study mapped, tracked and monitored developments in European civil society from 2018 to 2020, revealing the nature and implications of these changes” (Cooper, Dunin-Wąsowicz, Kaldor, Milanese, Rangelov, 2021).
Giving Up On Humanity, And Finding Ourselves
“When we ask the question, “What are humans?,” it is not just a matter of definition, but a matter of value...when we ask what it is to be human, we implicitly mean “What are these great humans, and what is it exactly that makes us so great?”...it assumes superiority” (Charlotte Sleigh, 2021).
Trump Has Made America a Laughingstock
“There is already an abundance of commentary on the impact of Mr. Trump’s mutiny on American democracy. We can only hope that the attack on Congress was the final battle of the last Civil War, not the beginning of a new one” (Ivan Krastev, 2021).
Trump Is Blowing Apart the G.O.P. God Bless Him.
“If just a few principled center-right Republicans... abandoned this G.O.P. or were simply willing to work with a center-left Biden team, the Problem Solvers Caucus in the House and like-minded members in the Senate...would become stronger than ever. That’s how we start to dial down the madness coursing through our nation” (Friedman 2021).
Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenmarksch campaign
This article examines extremism and polarization by looking at a “demonstration campaign demobilisation” that shows how “anti-far-right activists effectively engaged in a sort of kamikaze counter-mobilisation, seeking to shut down far-right events” that “spurred state authorities to act, imposing coercive measures that demobilised the far-right campaign” (Michael C. Zeller (2021)”.
Is France Fueling Muslim Terrorism by Trying to Prevent It?
President Macron’s “notion of “separatism” seems to assume that a significant minority of Muslims are tempted to set themselves apart somehow from the rest of French society...but this diagnostic is questionable, and it risks being self-defeating: It, itself, may endanger social cohesion” (Vincent Geisser, 2020).
Why India’s Muslims Reach for Liberalism
“When minorities are pushed...they may retreat into a siege mentality that breeds radicalization. But India’s Muslims...have embraced and emphasized the blessings of liberal democracy by placing their faith in the Constitution of India and insisting on their constitutional rights as citizens” (Mustafa Akyol and Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, 2020).
The Young's Discontent with Democracy is Worrying
“The young are dissatisfied with democracy. More worryingly, they are more dissatisfied with democracy than previous generations were at the same age. This makes them inclined towards extreme politics of the left or right — which may, in turn, actively threaten democracy in future” (The Financial Times Editorial Board, 2020).
The Encroachment of the Unsayable
“Our compromised liberalism has left a generation of writers weighing their every word for fear that a wrong one could wreck their professional lives. The result is safer, but also more timid; more correct, but also less interesting..it is as deadly an enemy of writing as has ever been devised” (Bret Stephens, 2020).
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