democracy

Weaponising progress

Ben December 8, 2022

This essay has been updated. Living the values articulated in speech has never been a...

Is politics getting worse, or are we just getting a better handle on how bad it has always been?

Ben January 30, 2019

In assessing the present condition of things, the endemic corruption and open hostility on the...

Ben Debney

Ben Debney is author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Current research investigates the role of Othering and blame-shifting in the origins and consequences of fossil ideology, the group of ideological belief systems that have sought to rationalise and legitimate the historical conditions behind the climate emergency. https://linktr.ee/bendebney