Darian Meacham - openDemocracy

What’s making voters so angry at each other?

Which comes first: widening inequality or the ‘affective polarisation’ that goes with it?

/ 25 Nov 2022

What’s making voters so angry at each other?

Does facial recognition tech in Ukraine’s war bring killer robots nearer?

Clearview AI is offering its controversial tech to Ukraine for identifying enemy soldiers – while autonomous killing machines are on the rise

By Darian Meacham and Martin Gak

/ 30 Mar 2022

Does facial recognition tech in Ukraine’s war bring killer robots nearer?

What do the EU’s ambitious plans for a digital revolution mean for citizens?

The EU’s challenge isn’t just to make Europe fit for the digital age, but to ensure that the digital age fits European laws, standards and values

By Darian Meacham

/ 8 Dec 2021

What do the EU’s ambitious plans for a digital revolution mean for citizens?

Can quitting meat significantly help climate change?

The amount of grains fed to US livestock is sufficient to feed about 840 million people who follow a plant-based diet. Is it time to give up meat?

By Darian Meacham

/ 7 Jun 2017

If you want to measure the health of the economy, forget about "employment"

Work dominates pretty much everything. Whether or not you have it, it’s probably taking up most of your time. Employment is the most-common indicator of economic health and nearly

By Darian Meacham

/ 26 Sep 2016

Job automation threatens peoples' livelihoods. Can universal basic income save the day?

Technological developments are rendering many jobs obsolete. Can implemeting a universal basic income provide a way of managing the social and economic implications of such a radical transformation?

By Darian Meacham

/ 23 Aug 2016

Breaching the long litany of unlesses: a response to Simon Glendinning’s ‘Saving Europe from salvation'

The risk to Europe is a perpetuation of crisis by implacable erosion, and with this the abdication of political institutions from protecting the interests of citizens that they are responsible for and to.

By Darian Meacham and Francesco Tava

/ 27 Mar 2015

Introducing three old ideas for a new Europe: flourishing, solidarity and care for the soul

These ideas--care for the soul, flourishing, solidarity--are ideas that according to Jan Patočka could be useful for reinterpreting our political space, in the face of a crisis which is shattering it.

By Darian Meacham and Francesco Tava

/ 23 Mar 2015

Introducing this week’s theme: Old ideas for a new Europe

We have asked a diverse group of political activists and intellectuals to offer their reflections on these three old ideas - flourishing, solidarity and care for the soul – from the perspective of their activities and experiences.

By Darian Meacham and Francesco Tava

/ 22 Mar 2015

Charlie Hebdo, refuse the logic of war

European governments and civil society can respond to terrorism by affirming and building democratic institutions and thereby refusing the logic of war. Initially, this seemed to be the French civic reaction.

By Darian Meacham

/ 11 Jan 2015

Charlie Hebdo, refuse the logic of war

European governments and civil society can respond to terrorism by affirming and building democratic institutions and thereby refusing the logic of war. Initially, this seemed to be the French civic reaction.

By Darian Meacham

/ 11 Jan 2015

Life after Europe: the Post-Europe Project

The joint editors of Europe – the very idea introduce the next stage of their project – a discussion inspired by the Czech philosopher and political dissident Jan Patočka. An invitation to discussion.

By Darian Meacham and Francesco Tava

/ 8 Nov 2014