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We're Just Getting Started

Some highlights just over a month after our launch on Substack!

Wisdom of Crowds
Jun 1, 2023
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Dear members —

Since our Substack launch, we’ve welcomed hundreds of you into the Crowd as subscribers. We’re enormously grateful for your support and look forward to building a vibrant, raucous, passionate, and curious community together. (If you missed them, check out our announcement and Shadi’s launch essay).

Whether you’re new here or not, at Wisdom of Crowds we love ideas and we love that we’re on a platform that supports the free exchange of ideas—even the ones that we don’t like. Our mission has always been to transcend the questions of policy and short-term social or political consequence to tackle bigger questions about who we are, why we believe what we believe, and how we come to believe it.

In this spirit, we’ve assembled a round-up of some of our favorite things since our launch and we encourage you visit (or revisit) them, to share them and leave a comment.

Now, on to the round-up!


Our very own Editor-at-Large

Samuel Kimbriel
makes the case for leaning on past thinkers in order to pursue greater intellectual ambition today, particularly among academics all too consumed by the pettiness on social media.

Essays

Thinking Is Risky

Samuel Kimbriel
·
May 3
Thinking Is Risky

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A critic of the romanticization of democracy,

Damir Marusic
expands on how democracy’s dynamism and lacking of a clear end state make it easier to accept. This essay is a feature of our Monday Note section, where editors ruminate aloud on larger questions, often spurred by current events.

Monday Notes

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Democracy

Damir Marusic
·
Apr 25
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Democracy

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On a provocative podcast episode, the inimitable Internet historian

Katherine Dee
joined us to discuss the Internet’s anti-natalist subculture and the distress over climate change that is influencing these views. The conversation unravels into one about suffering, personal agency, and how the internet makes us miserable.

What's There To Live For If You Only Live Online?

Damir Marusic, Shadi Hamid, and 1 other
·
Apr 21
What's There To Live For If You Only Live Online?

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As part of our “Debate” series,

Shadi Hamid
and
Damir Marusic
take one another on and revisit an old rift over the value and sustainability of American democracy, including by asking: who are the people?

Debates

Has America Reached its Limit?

Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid
·
Apr 25
Has America Reached its Limit?

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