Poland and Hungary offer starkly different economic paths since 1989. Poland saw a 650% GDP growth, becoming relatively equal, partly due to EU support. Yet, both nations share similar political trajectories, suggesting economic factors aren't the sole driver of modern conservatism. #EconomicGrowth #Poland #Hungary #EuropeanUnion #PoliticalScience #Conservatism
Exploring the delicate political balance in Poland. Is Warsaw a progressive city-state, while the southeast maintains traditional values? Examining a nation navigating cultural and demographic shifts. #PolandPolitics #Warsaw #EuropeanUnion #CulturalDivide #PoliticalCompromise
Exploring the delicate political balance in Poland. Is Warsaw a progressive city-state, while the southeast maintains traditional values? Examining a nation navigating cultural and demographic shifts. #PolandPolitics #Warsaw #EuropeanUnion #CulturalDivide #PoliticalCompromise
Political strategies once seen in Poland and Hungary have reappeared in the US. Initially subtle with Donald Trump, now in a more pronounced form. #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #PoliticalStrategy #Government
Episode 2950: Maciej Kisilowski on How to Save Democracy From Deplorables on All Sides https://keenon.substack.com/p/lets-agree-to-disagree?utm_source=youtube
“If your opening position is: your views are beyond the pale, you are deplorable, there is no space for you in democracy — then how on earth do we expect anything other than revolutionary conservatism as a response?” — Maciej Kisilowski For Americans concerned about the fragility of their democracy,…
Episode 2949: Tim Jackson Returns to June 1968 to Dig Up a Post-Capitalist Future https://keenon.substack.com/p/life-after-gdp?utm_source=youtube
“The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.” — Robert F. Kennedy, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 It is June 5, 1968. An eleven-year-old English boy is watching the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on his black and white television. That little boy is Tim Jackson…
Episode 2948: Laura McGrath on the 25 People Who Control American Fiction https://keenon.substack.com/p/middlewomen?utm_source=youtube
“Just 25 literary agents represent more than half of all prizewinning novelists in the 21st century. The agent is the unacknowledged legislator of the literary field.” — Laura McGrath We think of publishers and editors as the ultimate tastemakers. As those godlike gatekeepers controlling what we read. But if you’re…
Episode 2947: Kate O’Neill on the H Word, Verbal Slop, and the Meaning of Tech Humanism https://keenon.substack.com/p/what-makes-us-human?utm_source=youtube
