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      <title><![CDATA[Catch up - lots of cognitive republic posts]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Here’s a catch-up service for many prior Cognitive Republic posts, starting with the first, below. There are also book reviews here for members only.…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[cognitive warfare: rehearsing for the wrong tomorrow (part 1)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[(note: this is the first in an in-depth multipart series, with many more pieces to follow; c. 2212 words) War has always been fought over land, sea, air, cities, ports,…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[brighton, belfast, and the afterlife of violence - two books on the…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m reviewing two books this week on the related theme of Northern Ireland: Rory Carroll’s Killing Thatcher, published by Mudlark in 2023, and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[‘Cognitive Ecologies’: understanding mutual misunderstanding between…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[no polity can afford brittle cognition How do we make sense of politics? Contemporary politics is often analysed by political scientists as a contest of interests,…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cognitive Republic Catch Up]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This is just a brief note to say thank you to all the recent subscribers to this Cognitive Republic newsletter (click for details). Here are recent pieces - a mixture of…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[MAGA is an ‘identity-centred’ political form - take it seriously]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[MAGA is usefully analysed less as a coherent ideology and more as an identity-centred political form. We should take MAGA very seriously indeed. You might wonder why. It…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Why the Alliance Can’t Run on Courage—and What Cognitive Repair Looks Like Part One – the Cognitive Republic response to the past week What a week. I joked to a friend…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What if our societies were (deliberately) built to learn? (part one)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[(21 Jan 2026; 1851 words) My thinking about the Cognitive Republic - that to survive and prosper, liberal democracies must reinvent themselves as learning systems, ones…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Podcast 1: Announcing the Cognitive Republic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, here’s my first cognitive republic podcast. This is a reading of the first piece I published back on 12 Nov 2025. I’ll gradually catch up on all the…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Abundance (Klein & Thompson) reviewed: a conventional success; but…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Abundance: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson (Profile Books, 2025; paperback). Read, December 2025. Headline reaction: a deeply disappointing…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Start Here for the Cognitive Republic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Here’s the place to start - each public section is available via the link below - basically a ToC: ‘The Unfinished Contract — Our Democracies Must Learn or Die’ (1771…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Democratic operating systems are glitching everywhere: Let's (not)…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our default politics says: let’s patch and repair our operating systems, muddle onwards, share things, hope that something turns up. It’s not enough...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two books, one theme: the modern state versus the lone operator]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For Cognitive Republic members — a paired review of a classic thriller and a monumental political biography. I promised myself I’d sometimes pair a famous novel with a…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Last-minute gifting help: a Cognitive Republic membership ⏰]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello Cognitive Republic subscriber The holidays are here, and if you’re scrambling for a thoughtful gift, I’ve got the perfect solution. Give the gift of a Cognitive…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cognitive Republic - 2026]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Here’s a quick reminder regarding the last few posts: The Cognitive Republic is: a book-length project written online, in public, building to a full length text:…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The conventional response to our democratic malaise (interlude):-…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[(3183 words, 8 Dec 25)  Last time, I discussed the malaise afflicting our democracies, including the general survey evidence indicating there is grave and great…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Coming next week in the Cognitive Republic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A brief reminder: the next section of the Cognitive Republic will drop next week - I will keeping up an approximately fortnightly publishing schedule. I had intended…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Unfinished Contract —Our Democracies Must Learn or Die (Part One)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this experiment: a book written section by section in public. Last time, I described what this endeavour is about: a book-length project written online, in…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two news stories today hit a consistent theme of mine: the tech industry has a serious problem - profound, deep, worrisome. BL, UF: they have precisely no idea how…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[the self as a governance unit]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[some reflections on how identity, cognition, and agency converge in the architecture of democracies (some reflections on democracies and selves, with a reading list at…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[learning styles: a seductive but utterly useless idea]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fuggetaboutit, they don't exist ‘Learning styles’ is simple in theory, possibly even flattering to the learner, and utterly ridiculous in practice (when you think about…]]></description>
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