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Journey into a future shaped by creativity, critical thought, and secular habits of mind. Help shape what’s next!

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Emery Blake
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The source code of democracy

Field notes from 2026

Tom Krattenmaker
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The broligarchs and the quest for immortality

When the solution to having more money than you can spend in a lifetime is much, much more lifetime.

Adam Lee
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The passing of the American era

For better and worse, it's over.

Dr. Eve Makoff
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Santa Ana and the fires to come

The seasonal high winds that once seemed a romantic part of living in Los Angeles now stir an annual sense of doom.

DeepSeek / Dale McGowan
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Our political future, according to DeepSeek AI

The international AI game is on.

Dale McGowan
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The shrugging seculars

Gen Z is the most secular generation, but they wear it lightly. Is that shrugging attitude about to change?

Bruce Ledewitz
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Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral

A secular civilization, like any civilization, will need a story about a beneficent universe and a hopeful future.

Adam Lee
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Is oligarchy the human condition?

Let's stop pretending that this is a departure from the norm.

Adam Lee
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Why degrowth is wrong

Degrowth is a cramped, pessimistic vision of the future. Fortunately, it’s also wrong.

M L Clark
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What degrowth is, and why it matters

Against cultures of planned obsolescence.

Dale McGowan
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The unforgiven generations

We will be remembered for nothing else.

Hector A. Garcia
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Absurdities to die for: The tribal psychology of the last pandemic, and the next one

As we approach the possibility of another pandemic, psychologist Hector Garcia looks at the tribal thinking behind COVID denial.