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How we achieve the borderless future of Terra Ignota
On Ada Palmer’s utopian sci-fi series and an exploration of how we might bring it to life.
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Elle Griffin
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Companies are the new City-States
That’s why we need to build better ones.
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Elle Griffin
4
Social Development > Self-Development
We need one much more than the other.
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Elle Griffin
28
This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation
Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
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Elle Griffin
41
Am I a Democrat or a Republican?
The case for going label-less.
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Elle Griffin
12
A grassroots political party for the middle
The Forward Party, citizen's assemblies, and creating a better independence movement in the US.
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Elle Griffin
15
The rich are controlling our government
Ok but what can we do about it?
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Elle Griffin
15
Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative?
We're asking the wrong questions.
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Elle Griffin
11
Will you explain anarchism to me?
Letters to an anarchist, part one.
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Elle Griffin
57
Is America about to fall? Or flourish?
That depends on us.
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Elle Griffin
34
It's ok to live in a fantasyland
That's the joy of being a writer (and reader).
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Elle Griffin
31
The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon
Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
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Elle Griffin
12
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