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Author of two books: "Up in the Air: Christianity. Atheism & the Global Problems of the 21st Century" & "Beyond Reason: Why We Fail at Understanding Each Other." Contributed to MLI and Disinfowatch. Currently writing as a Research Assistant for EUROPEUM Prague.

Blog with over 500 articles on philosophy, religion, and politics. Podcast on Spotify and other streaming platforms, titled "Up in the Air."

BA in political science and philosophy from UBC in Canada. Presently, doing an MA at McGill University, Montreal, in History, paying particular focus on the emergence of populism in formerly Warsaw Pact states, especially the Visegrad Group. ...more

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Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics

by Lucan Way

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Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy

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Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia

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“In fact, in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won.”
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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
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