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Decide on the exception

Alasdair Roberts (Suffolk): Why the Occupy Movement Failed. From Swans, Michael Barker on H.P. Lovecraft's alien legacy (and a response). A peculiar type of democratic unity: Geoffrey Schotter on Carl J. Friedrich's strange Schmittian turn or how Friedrich stopped worrying and learned to decide on the exception. Solving happiness: A new type of politics has appeared in the last decade — the politics of well-being. Dan Rothstein is the cofounder of the Right Question Institute, a Cambridge-based nonprofit that exists to promote an idea he’s been nursing for more than a decade — that asking good questions is a life skill far more important than we realize. Instead of differentiating people on the basis of their “religion” (as Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc.), what if we differentiated people according to their temporal orientation? We could divide people into Pasters, Presentists, and Futurians.