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What are the Best MR Posts?

From the Archives–written by ChatGPT. This ranking judges posts on reasoning, originality of framing, explanatory power, intellectual stimulation, timeliness, and how much they accomplish in their length. Originality includes an…

Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking | Presented by Aditya Chakrabortty with Nesrine Malik , produced by Frankie Tobi and Luke John Smith , the executive producers are Maz Ebtehaj, Kirsty Major and James Tindale

Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their kids and…

What They Took From You

Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the police. He could live where…

The Global Office

This paper argues that globalisation’s frontier has shifted from manufacturing GVCs to services GVCs: from the Global Factory to the Global Office. While the Factory remains larger in gross trade,…

Love at first photo?

Romantic interest on swipe-based dating apps (SBDAs) is highly concentrated. This can frustrate both popular users who feel overwhelmed by a glut of attention, and less popular users who feel…