[NEWS] Ten links about politics and culture and the future

[rfmcdonald]

• The Conversation looks at how the past religious homogeneity of Québec influences contemporary secularism.


• Scott Gilmore at MacLean's writes, correctly, about how Canadians in different provinces are deeply disconnected from each other.


• Shannon Proudfoot writes at MacLean's about how physicist Philippe J. Fournier ended up developing a second career as a predictor of Canadian elections.


• Are legal battles between different levels of Canadian government the new normal? CBC considers.


• The Conversation notes that most rural areas in the United States are bound to decline for structural reasons.


• This Guardian article looks at how a high-profile gang rape in Spain helped drive the growth of the far-right Vox Party via anti-feminism and misogyny.


• Jezebel looks at the foolish and shortsighted alliance between transphobic feminists and right-wing groups.


• Buzzfeed shares the story of how former alt-right activist Katie McHugh is trying to rebuild her life, and her plea to her fellows to leave before they get sucked in.


• Paul Salvatori writes at NOW Toronto about how the algorithms of major social networking platforms suck people into becoming consumers of inflammatory content.


• Maggie Hennefeld at Open Democracy considers if "clownish outsiders" are going to be the leaders of the democracies of the future.

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[conuly]

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