Rural France has lost its spirit - UnHerd

" rural depopulation is nothing new in this big country, but the extent of it today is alarming."

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Tracker: State Legislation on Deepfakes in Elections - Public Citizen

" State Legislation on Deepfakes in Elections"

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AI Political Archive

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Transgenderism is caused by television - by Exogenous, Inc.

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Economists and planners debate housing affordability | PIA New Planner journal — PolisPlan

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Elizabeth Anderson on Equality - by Yascha Mounk

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Has populism been thwarted in France? - UnHerd

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Why Starmer is stuck in Blair's prison - UnHerd

" Blair’s legacy of suffocating social regulation has mushroomed, but enforcement has grown increasingly patchy. The corrosive cumulative impression has become that burglars can rob your home with impunity, and shoplifters can help themselves, but mean tweets will get you arrested.

But will matters improve under Starmer? It’s hard to say. So far, Starmer’s law and order approach sounds reassuringly Blairish: he is, for example, a longstanding critic of Tory prison policy, has promised 20,000 new prison places, and also pledged to prioritise antisocial behaviour and recruit 13,000 neighbourhood police officers. But Starmer’s choice of Minister for Prisons hints at some of the pitfalls he may face."

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In Defence Of Civilization

"Hostility towards civilization and its accomplishment is underpinned by the powerful anti-humanist turn of western culture. Suspicion towards human agency has tended to represent the historical achievement of humanity in a negative light. Human societies are frequently cast in the role of parasites living off nature while destroying the environment. Civilization is frequently held responsible for the creation of an environmental crisis. Overpopulation, pollution, deforestation, environmental degradation are often blamed on human civilization. The negative connotation of the term ‘human impact’ highlights the moral devaluation of the historical role of human society. A loss of belief in humanity’s potential to do good runs in parallel for society’s indifference to the fate of our hard fought for civilizational values.

Finally, it is necessary to point out that society’s estrangement from its civilizational accomplishment is ultimately the responsibility of the behaviour of its elites. The cultural and political elites of the western world do not take seriously their civilizational legacy. Worse still, in its institutions of culture it constantly transmits the claim that the history of Western Civilization is a story of shame. Their call for civilizational suicide must be resisted and discredited. We must resist the pressure to decivilize and to turn our back on the achievements of our ancestors

To uphold and defend the legacy of Western Civilization is not to idealise its representatives and the behaviour of those it influenced over the centuries. "

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4D European Conference - Democratic Digitalisation and Digital Rights

"4D EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
DEMOCRATIC DIGITALISATION AND DIGITAL RIGHTS
9TH OF OCTOBER | BARCELONA | FREE OF CHARGE
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ESTÀ PASSANT AND POLÒNIA FROM MINORIA ABSOLUTA | EL MUNDO TODAY"

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