The Captive Mind Revisited
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Possessed of the Dialectic
Complete cynicism and fundamental belief are not incompatible when the good of the cause is the sole criterion of moral action.
Mind-Forg’d Manacles: Why Intellectuals Conform
The phenomenon of radicalism in the intellectual elite stems as much from lack of courage as from sincere ideology.
What Comes Next Is Worse
The rise of artificial intelligence may enable totalitarian horrors that no twentieth-century intellectual could have contrived.
Forced to Be Free
The modern idea of perpetual progress and the modern reality of brutal state control are two sides of the same coin.