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Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve

Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve

By: Shane O'Mara
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Cognitive Republic a book-length project written online, in public - a new and scary experience for me, and I hope an exhilarating experience for you. This will be the podcast version. I begins with a blunt claim: unless liberal democracies reinvent themselves, they will be out-competed by populist authoritarian alternatives.

Not everywhere; not all at once; but steadily, through institutional fatigue, informational disorder, and the seductive simplicity of strongman answers.

The central premise is equally blunt. Democracies that learn—truly learn—are the ones that will endure.

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Shane O'Mara Politics & Government Science
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  • Announcing: The Cognitive Republic

    Announcing: The Cognitive Republic
    Jan 25 2026
    Announcing: The Cognitive RepublicWhat you can expect

    This is my new home for a new mission: a book-length project written online, in public - a new and scary experience for me, and I hope an exhilarating experience for you - the reader.

    And now available as a podcast - for you - the listener.


    Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve.

    Reinventing Democracies as Learning, Adaptive, Systems


    Cognitive Republic started life as a book proposal: I have decided instead to release it here piece-by-piece to test the arguments and to engage in thinking in public.


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    Liberal democracy does not need more moral rhetoric or further arguments about liberals versus conservatives or big versus small government; these arguments are tedious, care-worn, and fruitless. They are getting us nowhere. We need to move on from this way of doing business.

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