Nathan Gardels
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The digital media ecosystem disempowers the public sphere.
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The Tre Oci Council convenes in Venice.
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Digital platforms for deliberation and consensus show the way.
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The G7 has become a civilizational alliance.
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Technology emerges from the lineage of life on Earth.
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Planetary homeostasis will be the new ground of the sacred.
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Generative AI will amplify, not diminish, clashes over values encoded in its algorithms.
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When the extent of integration with China is also the ground of conflict, the West is not so unified.
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Inviting the broader civil society into governance can cool the polarized political atmosphere and lead to effective action.
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Nihilistic machines require human collaborators to realize their promise and avoid peril.
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Civilizational identity stands behind Xi and Putin’s front against a liberal world order.
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Humiliation and disrespect are the drivers of history that ends badly.
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Liberal democracy must show it can deliver for the constituencies of populism that would undermine it.
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Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson takes on the climate challenge.
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