Front Page [Unofficial]Teacher shows her first graders engaging in ‘discourse’ in class, and honestly, bravo
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“ #Publicdiscourse about #taxes and #inequality is, even more than discussion of other #economic topics, infested with #zombies — #ideas that should be dead, having been proved wrong again and again, but that keep shambling along, eating people’s brains.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Bezos, Backlash and Zombies
Bezos, Backlash and Zombies
NewsletterTFAmerica's Philosophical Void: A Costly Misconception
Why Americans treat philosophy like faith, not thinking. This hurts education and public debate. Learn the real cost.
#PhilosophyVsFaith, #CriticalThinking, #AmericanEducation, #PublicDiscourse, #IntellectualGrowth
https://newsletter.tf/america-philosophy-faith-not-thinking-debate/
Many Americans think philosophy is about faith, not thinking. This is different from how other countries see it, leading to weaker public arguments.
#PhilosophyVsFaith, #CriticalThinking, #AmericanEducation, #PublicDiscourse, #IntellectualGrowth
https://newsletter.tf/america-philosophy-faith-not-thinking-debate/
PepperberryMost media debates feel open.
But they’re often structured long before they reach the screen.
This piece looks at how framing, expert selection, and incentives shape what gets discussed — and what doesn’t.
“Freedom of speech exists.
You just have to stay inside the question.”
Essay👇
https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/we-dont-report-the-truth-we-manage
#MediaFraming #ManufacturedConsent #PublicDiscourse #MediaCritique #AgendaSetting #PolicyDebate #LaborShortage #WageDebate #NarrativeControl #CriticalThinking #Journalism #PoliticalEconomy
We often assume biased media means false information.
More often, it means something subtler:
a narrowing of the conversation itself.
This essay explores how “reasonable” expert panels can produce consensus by defining the problem in advance.
Not by conspiracy —
but by structure.
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https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/we-dont-report-the-truth-we-manage
#MediaFraming #ManufacturedConsent #PublicDiscourse #MediaCritique #AgendaSetting #PolicyDebate #LaborShortage #WageDebate #NarrativeControl #CriticalThinking #Journalism #PoliticalEconomy
The-14We can’t know if Donald Trump has dementia. Even if he did, it wouldn’t excuse his actions
#Politics #Health #Ethics #Media #Journalism #Psychology #Trump #Dementia #MentalHealth #Accountability #Misinformation #PublicDiscourse #Stigma #Leadership
https://the-14.com/we-cant-know-if-donald-trump-has-dementia-even-if-he-did-it-wouldnt-excuse-his-actions/
#Politics #Health #Ethics #Media #Journalism #Psychology #Trump #Dementia #MentalHealth #Accountability #Misinformation #PublicDiscourse #Stigma #Leadership
https://the-14.com/we-cant-know-if-donald-trump-has-dementia-even-if-he-did-it-wouldnt-excuse-his-actions/
Viral Trend DailyThis story is spreading because it touches on deeper questions about identity and societal change.
#Europe #Politics #Society #GlobalDebate #CulturalIssues #PublicDiscourse
#Europe #Politics #Society #GlobalDebate #CulturalIssues #PublicDiscourse
Association REDefineParticipation, dignity, care, transparency, inclusion, voice — the language is everywhere. But what happens when the words remain, while the structures meant to carry them grow thinner, vaguer, or harder to answer for?
#Coherence #Leadership #Democracy #PublicLife #PublicDiscourse #Accountability #Meaning #CivicCulture #InstitutionalTrust #PoliticalCulture #SocialChange #SystemsThinking #Ethics #CivicLeadership
There’s a shift happening in plain sight.
It’s not that responsible and reckless ways of speaking coexist. They always have.
It’s that both now carry equal weight, even when the stakes are real lives and real futures.
#Democracy
#GlobalPolitics
#Leadership
#Geopolitics
#Sensemaking
#PublicDiscourse
#SystemsThinking
#PoliticalAnalysis
#Ethics
