Media, Narrative & Free Will

Readings for this session

Pulled live from the Articles library — this list grows as new articles are published.

• The Country That Began as a Business4 min
• What Was Already Here4 min
• Five Things Worth Knowing Before Anything Else5 min
• The Word "Sovereign" Was Never About Kings4 min
• Independence Was Real. It Was Also Unfinished.4 min
• The Work That Was Never Meant to Finish in One Generation5 min
• There Was Law Before There Were Countries4 min
• Government Without a Throne4 min
• The People Who Did Not Forget4 min
• You Cannot Own Land the Way You Own a Chair5 min
• How You Erase a People Without Firing a Shot5 min
• What Moved In Once the Old Order Moved Out4 min
• What Never Actually Disappeared4 min
• When a Modern Constitution Sounds Like an Old Truth5 min
• Two Mistakes Worth Avoiding on the Way Back4 min
• Standing Like You Already Know Who You Are5 min
• Build on Roots, Not on Imports4 min
• What This Is Actually For4 min
• The Law That Was Always Already Yours4 min
• Old Knowledge, New Medicine — Together, Not Instead4 min
• Protecting Your Own Mind4 min

Opening

Bring one headline from this week that made you feel something strongly. Read it out. Ask: what was I meant to feel?

Discussion

1. Whose interests does this framing serve, if any?
2. What information would I need to actually judge this, that the piece didn't give me?
3. Where do I get my slowest, most trustworthy sense of what's true?