| blog post in No Food for Thought | Exit or Voice: the powerful anti-Putin voices of Arkady Volozh and Oleg Tinkov Half a decade after the famous treatise on the matter , quitting or speaking remains a constant dilemma. In particular in rogue autocratic regimes like Vladimir Putin's |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Pavel Filatyev and the courage to oppose and die When you hear about Ukraine's invasion, you can't help but wonder why some Russian soldiers won't quit and denounce. Pavel Filatyev may be the first one to quit completely , and have the courage an |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Technological deceleration: a symptom of fragmentation and severe health hazards One year ago, KNP warned against the perils of fragmentation . What’s happened since then: • Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO. • …and both started [https://www.p |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Technological evolution, a promise of unsurpassed repression? If the 20th century was generally favorable to democracy, {MOUSEOVER(label="many see the 21st century as a different story" sticky="y")}[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocr |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Vladimir Putin's Undeclared Wars 3 weeks ago, shortly after Russia expanded its invasion of Ukraine, I wondered how Russians would react. And I wondered if they could react, given how bad repression is getting . I w |
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