Tag Archives: Deep Establishment

What the Coronavirus Scare Says About Us

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Steven Yates

What should this coronovirus scare teach us? Should it teach us how easy it is to lead the masses by their noses through media-induced fear and hysteria? Continue reading →

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Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 2)

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Steven Yates

Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 2): in “A Free Man’s Worship” (1903) philosopher Bertrand Russell called for a humanist ethic of respect for scientific truth, economic justice, and world peace. How well has this held up? Is its failure just the sign of a civilization’s growing pains, or of something fundamentally wrong with its key assumptions? Continue reading →

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The Deep Establishment

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Steven Yates

In the title of his recent Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) former Greek foreign minister Yanis Varoufakis introduces this phrase: The Deep Establishment. I like it! The … Continue reading →

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