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Neoliberalism, Dead Again? On the Many Lives, Half-Lives, and After-Lives of an Unloved Idea
The free-market ideological project known, mostly by critics, as “neoliberalism” has been declared dead before. But once again, prominent commentators are reading the last rites. There is no shortage of indications: Trump’s tariffs and the return of protectionism, repudiations of globalism, “the China model,” resurgent nationalisms, so-called state capitalism, and a host of other morbid symptoms. Did late neoliberalism just pass into post-neoliberalism?

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Blog - War in Iran: What Does Trump Want?
From the beginning of the Iran conflict, Donald Trump has presented an array of reasons and objectives for attacking Iran. Many of them are contradictory. It’s about nuclear weapons (the same ones that were “obliterated” last year); It’s about fundamental regime change (and yet the “Venezuela solution” would also be just fine); There was an imminent threat of attack against the US (which no intelligence agency was able to pick up) – or, Trump just had a “gut-feeling” that it was simply time to do this as it has to be done sooner or later anyway; An impending Israeli attack pushed him into it (or he pushed the Israelis).

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Populism in Postmodern Times: In Search of a Deeper Democracy?
Since the 1980s, with the mutations of modernity, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even more so since the global financial crisis of 2008, many have observed a resurgence of populism, both on the right and on the left. To describe our era and diagnose the causes of the multiple crises afflicting liberal democracies, scholars cite uprooting, depoliticization, downward social mobility, disenchantment, but also broken promises and widespread fragmentation.

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Blog - A Canadian’s Past, Present and Future with China
Almost fifty years ago, I arrived in Shanghai as a member of the Fudan University class of ’77. I was the first foreign student admitted to the Philosophy Department’s History of Ancient Chinese Thought Program since the Sino-Soviet split of 1961. My thesis advisor, Yan Beiming—a prominent figure on the conservative side of China’s 1920s New Culture Movement—had just returned to campus. Now an elderly professor, he had endured years of imprisonment and torture as Fudan’s “number one object of attack” during the 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution.

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From the beginning of the Iran conflict, Donald Trump has presented an array of reasons and objectives for attacking Iran. Many of them are contradictory. It’s about nuclear weapons (the same ones that were “obliterated” last year); It’s about fundamental regime change (and yet the “Venezuela solution” would also be just fine); There was an

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