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Why Owen Jones is wrong about Foreign Policy

Part 1: The case for chaos over connection

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Sam Mace
Aug 29, 2025
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Our minds naturally seek patterns. The desire to make sense of the world transcends partisan boundaries, affecting us all. This is especially true of political theorists, who use a particular lens and begin to see the world through it. In doing so, we risk making false connections —links that don’t exist —to verify our worldview.

This is a complex proce…

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