Thought experiment 8: The Experience Machine
In the 1970s Robert Nozick imagined immersive, tech-simulated pleasure as a negation of what it means to be human.
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The disturbing rise of tech-bro pronatalism
A growing group of Silicon Valley figures are agitating for people to have more children – as a solution to…
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The new Trumpian bargain
The president-elect’s team could restore a 19th-century Republicanism, with its blend of trade protectionism and internal laissez-faire.
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Silicon Valley’s greatest moonshot
Big Tech’s billionaires aren’t scared of Trump – they like what he’s selling.
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The new authoritarian personality
What is driving the resurgence of the libertarian far right?
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Monster of the mainstream
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei embodies the zombie neoliberalism of the 1990s.
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A bonfire of delusions
If the Tories fail to learn the right lessons from the collapse of Trussonomics, they face electoral oblivion.
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Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right
The free-market thinkers and ideas behind the most radical economic experiment in Britain for 40 years.
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Tory libertarians want to govern a Britain that does not exist
The way the British people have conducted themselves during the pandemic shows there is no appetite for market rule.
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