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The Postmodern Labor Theory of Value and the Illusion of Exploitation
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The US women’s soccer team has recently become the focus of a national debate over the apparent pay gap between the men’s and women’s teams. Many are pointing to this as an example of systemic disc…
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Areo "What happens when two different people value something differently? The deciding factor is the group identity of the actor, which is where the postmodern labor theory of value draws upon intersectionality" explains 12h
Why Postcolonial Theory Is Not Helping Hong Kong
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It was a scene that seemed anachronistic and perplexing to Western observers. For a few brief moments on July 1st 2019, the 22nd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China, the British colon…
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Areo "To deride the fight against one of the most repressive and autocratic regimes is to completely undermine and disparage Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy and freedom" argues 35h
America’s Persistent Problem with Equality
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One of the most significant developments of the late modern period (post–1750) has been the replacement of ordered hierarchy as a social and political value by equality. Equality can take two diffe…
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Areo "In the US, the question of how to balance competitive equality with equality of condition has been with us from the beginning." Carl Bankston takes a indepth historical look at American conceptions of equality. 56h
The Sex Recession
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The number of Americans not having sex has reached a record high. Similar declines in sexual activity have been documented in Britain and Japan. Young men are driving this recession—whether willing…
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Areo Sociologist, Maria Kougolou () takes a critical look at the explanations for the decrease in sex. "Young men" she tells us, "are driving this recession --whether willingly, or not." 4d
THE 'ART OF THINKING' EVENTS
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The 'ART OF THINKING' sessions are fun, thought provoking ‘talk and discussion’ events, run by Philosopher Dr Greg Scorzo, centred around a variety of topics, themes or organisational issues.
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Areo Areo just backed THE 'ART OF THINKING' EVENTS. We need to get the conversations happening. 6d
Let’s Change the Nature of Public Debate: An Introduction to Letter
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Many people are nostalgic for the days when letter writing was commonplace. When they describe these longings, they usually cite the physical aspects of the experience: the movements of the wrist a…
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Areo "In the polarised, combative political environment of today, we need calm, considered one-on-one discussions more than ever." "Debaters aim to win; letter writers to persuade." introduces with whom Areo is proud to partner. 6d
A Preview of “What is Post-Modern Conservatism?: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times.”
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In 1989, a young scholar named Francis Fukuyama published an essay with the provocative title “The End of History?” in the National Interest. He argued that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, hist…
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Areo "Postmodern conservatism is first and foremost a form of resentment-driven identity politics" argues Matthew McManus () 7d
Human Cultural Evolution: A Letter Exchange
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In a recent exchange of letters, hosted on the platform Letter.wiki, Massimo Pigliucci and David Sloan Wilson explored the question of whether multi-level selection theory, a school of evolutionary…
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Areo "Human Cultural Evolution: A Letter Exchange" discusses the exchange of views between Massimo Pigliucci () and David Sloane Wilson () on 9d
Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma: Identity Politics and Feminism
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Although the ideology of identity politics remains hegemonic in the academy and in many social institutions, a growing—and arguably necessary—body of critique has been emerging. These critiques hav…
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Areo "What happened to this burgeoning of academic feminist work on motherhood? Judith Butler happened. After Butler, it became problematic to talk about women—so we spent all our time deconstructing women and exposing women’s sins" - 9d
Hippocratic Oath for the Culture War
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It starts with a tweet, perhaps, or a brief video clip. Someone, somewhere, has violated your core values—those of every correct-thinking person. How could this have happened? Not only were the wea…
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Areo "The Hippocratic oath famously centers the injunction to do no harm. In our social climate, in which it is easier than ever to harm others all over the world, through misinformation and abuse, such an oath is vital" - & 10d
A. C. Grayling’s The History of Philosophy. Book Review
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In Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s The Grand Design, the authors take aim at that most seemingly irrelevant of fields: philosophy. They pose some of the big questions about the universe and …
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Areo "The history of philosophy is a big field and it takes a steady and expert hand to guide a reader through it. , a longtime proponent of philosophy in public life, achieves this." A review by Daniel Sharp () 14d
Dogma Is Not Confined to the Cathedral
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My fellow nonbelievers, Whether you call yourself an atheist, an agnostic—or even spiritual but not religious—there’s a decent chance that you weren’t raised to accept such a position. Many of us w…
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Areo "Many nonbelievers pride themselves on their commitment to rationality... . I simply implore you to keep going. Don’t stop at the Torah or the Qur’an. As secular humanists, we should resist intellectual tyranny wherever we find it" says 14d
Is Anti-Zionism a Form of Anti-Semitism?
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A detailed look at the recent Intelligence Squared debate on the motion “Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism” can help illuminate some of the main points to be considered in examining this controversial …
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Areo Jonathan Gellman takes a detailed look at the recent Intelligence Squared debate on the motion “Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism” and addresses misunderstandings that commonly arise on both sides of this question. 17d
Why We Need Whiteness Studies
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Five years ago, the conservative Charles Murray and the liberal Robert Putnam agreed on something. Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and is most widely known for his co-autho…
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Areo "Academics need to treat whiteness the same way they treat blackness" argues 17d
Journalism’s Armchair Psychology
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While I’m not sure whether the AP specifically prohibits it, I would like to petition all journalists not to psychologize subjects when they have no evidence for their claims. If you don’t have per…
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Areo "I would like to petition all journalists not to psychologize subjects when they have no evidence for their claims," pleads Max Diamond. 22d
What The Left Can Learn From Liberalism
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Today, liberalism seems under greater threat than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Books with titles like Why Liberalism Failed have received laudations from both the Left and the Right. …
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Areo ""Liberalism still has a lot to offer progressives looking for radical change," argues . 24d
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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Book Review. Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto. (Verso Books, 2019) Aaron Bastani, co-founder and public face of Novara Media, and public advocate for the Corbyn project,…
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Areo "FALC is a nod to an aspiration, with a long history on the Left, that should be reemphasised," argues . 25d
Hindus Will Have Their Martin Niemöller Moment
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On the balmy Saturday night of June 30th, 1934, Ernst Roehm and his lieutenants of the notorious Nazi SA Sturmabteilung, better known as the brown shirts, were sleeping soundly at the Hanslbauer Ho…
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Areo "when the BJP & Hindutva are done lynching hapless Muslim cattle herders, murdering freethinkers, demonising liberal leftists & expunging Christian missionaries, they will come for who fail the purity test of what makes a true Hindu," argues . 37d
A Stout Heart: Thomas Paine and His Legacy
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Tom Paine is a paradoxical figure. He was one of the great men whose fierce scribblings made an indelible mark on the course of several major events: most notably, the American Revolution. He is pa…
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Areo "A revival of Thomas Paine's ideas is in order," argues . 41d
Don’t Let Environmentalism Turn into Anti-Capitalism (or Worse)
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It’s evident that we have a problem with climate change and pollution. The world is heating up, we’re losing species, and plastics plague our oceans. These expansive problems are not easily solved,…
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Areo "Free-market capitalism is the solution, rather than the problem. Although environmentalism is a laudable and necessary movement, it would be a dire mistake to let it turn anti-capitalist—or, worse, anti-human," argues . 43d