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The United States of Spectacle

The politics of showmanship has increasingly real consequences

5 min readJan 13, 2021

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The United States of Spectacle

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Bonny Brooks
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Arc Digital

Need a New Year’s Resolution? Try Boredom

The future belongs to those who don’t belong to their phones

4 min readDec 30, 2020

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Need a New Year’s Resolution? Try Boredom

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Arc Digital

A New, Highly-Infectious Mutation of COVID Could Spread Widely, and Britain Leads the Way

Boris Johnson has trumpeted the U.K.’s world-leading credentials — this is not what he had in mind

5 min readDec 20, 2020

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A New, Highly-Infectious Mutation of COVID Could Spread Widely, and Britain Leads the Way

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Arc Digital

The New York Post, that OnlyFans Medic, and the Real Scandal They Didn’t Cover

The precarity of the gig economy is fertile ground for “side hustle” sex work

7 min readDec 15, 2020

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The New York Post, that OnlyFans Medic, and the Real Scandal They Didn’t Cover

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Arc Digital

The COVID Corporate Cash Cow

How ill-qualified cronies are getting rich at the people’s expense

7 min readNov 24, 2020

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The COVID Corporate Cash Cow

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Arc Digital

After the Election, Hitting Refresh

Will normality reassert itself?

7 min readNov 8, 2020

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After the Election, Hitting Refresh

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Britain is Less Polarised than the U.S. — Here’s Why

Party-identity politics make for social division

8 min readNov 1, 2020

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Britain is Less Polarised than the U.S. — Here’s Why

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Arc Digital

Can Mindfulness Change The World?

Promoters of the meditation technique make big claims — but do they stack up?

7 min readOct 25, 2020

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Can Mindfulness Change The World?

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Arc Digital

Gimmick Politics and Britain’s War on Drugs

Weaponizing drug policy hurts civil liberties — not the drug trade

7 min readSep 27, 2020

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Gimmick Politics and Britain’s War on Drugs

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Arc Digital

The Whispered Left-Wing Dissent on “Cancel Culture”

No, there isn’t a progressive consensus on “cancel culture”

9 min readJul 17, 2020

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The Whispered Left-Wing Dissent on “Cancel Culture”

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Bonny Brooks

Bonny Brooks

Associate Editor at Arc Digital. Former IPS Research Fellow at Library of Congress & AHRC researcher. Writer. Politics geek. http://bonnybrooks.net/

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