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Votes for Six-Year-Olds: Could Child Suffrage Revive Democracy? (David Runciman)

This week, guest presenter Sophia Smith Galer speaks to David Runciman, a podcaster and former politics academic, about his radical proposition to lower the voting age to six. It’s a position that has been met with laughter, scorn, and even anger, but he believes it’s not just in accordance with our democratic principles - it could also help give our stale and fractious democracy a much-needed shot in the arm. David talks us through the history of the arguments about suffrage (some of which h...

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Culture

Old Wisdom, New Distractions: New and Notable Books

As the mores of daily life in the twenty-first century change every month or two with the advent of the next digital novelty, lots of books on how to. The post Old Wisdom, New Distractions: New and Notable Books appeared first on First Things

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Culture

Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women

Like models in a fashion show, gaudy but unfulfilling icons of femininity parade before the women of my generation: the tradwife influencer marketing herself and her nutrition products through. The post Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women appeared first on First Things

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Geopolitics

Saronic Founders: Autonomous Warships, China's 230X Advantage & Swarms of Robot Ships

(0:00) Saronic founders join the show! (4:56) The Navy's first autonomous rescue in the Strait of Hormuz, and how China out builds America 230-to-1 (13:04) $3B destroyers vs. Marauder (21:25) Killing cost-plus, the new primes, and why only 1% of the budget goes to autonomy (25:55) Could 10,000 Corsairs actually lock down a 20-mile strait? (31:25) China's arming robot dogs: will our AI weapons hurt us in Taiwan? (36:33) Exclusive announcement: Port Alpha lands in Brownsville: 4000 acres, 10,00...

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