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Modern Citizen

Clear thinking and practical judgment for the pressures of the present: technology, power, work and change.

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  • Anatomy of Corruption Foundations
    Completed the course on how corruption works: corrupt networks and institutional corruption, regulatory capture, the revolving door, lobbying and access, dark money, the normalization of small favors, offices treated as property from Rome to the Gilded Age, and practical red flags and safeguards. 0 holders 1 course
  • Attention Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on attention: how attention works, the attention economy, persuasive design, task switching and interruption, the evidence debate over screens and well-being, deep reading, practical habits for focus, and attention as a civic skill. 0 holders 1 course
  • Building the Better Future Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on building a better future: utopias and piecemeal reform, how communities govern shared resources, open records and independent watchdogs, education for self-government, citizen participation, trust and bridging ties, reforms designed to last, and personal practice with the long term in view. 0 holders 1 course
  • Corporations and the Commons Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on corporations and the commons: what a corporation is and how incorporation spread, corporate personhood and rights, the debate over corporate purpose, what markets and firms do well, public goods and the governance of shared resources, antitrust from Sherman to Bork and Khan, and platform power and the digital commons. 0 holders 1 course
  • Disagreement Without Enemies Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on disagreeing without enemies: telling opponents from enemies, how group identity shapes reasoning, how dehumanization and contempt work, steelmanning, looping and receptive conversation, what research shows about changing minds, and where boundaries and firmness belong. 0 holders 1 course
  • Information Hygiene Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on information hygiene: misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, why falsehood spreads faster than truth, how ranking and search shape what people see, lateral reading and SIFT, cheapfakes, deepfakes and provenance, AI-generated text, the psychology of belief and correction, and prebunking and everyday habits for sharing responsibly. 0 holders 1 course
  • Living With AI Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on living with AI: how machine learning and language models work, what they do well, how they fail, bias in data, dependence and augmentation, habits for using AI well, who controls the technology, and the laws and rights that govern it. 0 holders 1 course
  • Revolutions Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on revolutions compared: what counts as a revolution, theories of why they break out, Brinton's stages, why revolutions turn on their own, what made some transitions last, the evidence on nonviolent and armed resistance with its criticisms, and how to change a society without destroying it. 0 holders 1 course
  • Systems Thinking Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on systems thinking: elements, emergence and the iceberg model, stocks and flows, reinforcing and balancing feedback, delays and oscillation, incentives and unintended consequences, common system traps, leverage points and resilience, and the limits and wise use of systems models. 0 holders 1 course
  • Work, Value and Basic Income Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on work, value and basic income: what counts as a basic income and its cousins, its history from Utopia and Speenhamland to Nixon's plan, the strongest cases for and against, experiments in North America, Africa, Asia and Europe, and what a life is for when survival no longer depends on work. 0 holders 1 course

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