Money And Habermas

I Make Good Money. Why Do I Still Feel Like This?

Hanna Horvath | Your Brain On Money | 11th March 2026

The hollowing out of the middle class has created two versions of the same squeeze. Some are facing material precarity — “the basics are genuinely falling out of reach”. Others are facing positional precarity — despite making good money on paper, they are in a “state of disenfranchisement”. “Neither group is accumulating capital”, which is what matters in an economy organised around returns to ownership (4,100 words)

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Jürgen Habermas’ Lost World

Ioannes Chountis De Fabbri | Engelsberg Ideas | 16th March 2026

“The obituaries will honour Habermas as one of the great philosophers of the 20th century. But the work that will endure longest is the one that began in the coffee-houses of Georgian London, and whose deepest insight was, in the end, a conservative one: that the conditions of rational public life are fragile, historically contingent, and not easily recovered once lost” (2,400 words)