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Aly and Stephens discuss some telling examples, analyse the role of the media, and look back to heroes of democracy who found a better way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArguing that democracy cannot survive contempt, they draw on philosophy, literature, and history to make an urgent case about the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUncivil Wars\u003c\/em\u003e poses the crucial question: 'So what do we owe those with whom we might profoundly, even radically, disagree? In our time, the answer increasingly seems to be—Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We've come to regard our opponents as not much more than obstructions in the road, impediments standing between us and our desired end. We have grown disinclined to consider what it might mean to go on together meaningfully as partners within a shared democratic project. To put it bluntly, we see no future with our political opponents because we feel we have nothing to learn from them.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 86, \u003cem\u003eSleepwalk to War\u003c\/em\u003e, from Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, Michael J. 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How do we come to grips with this chaos?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor years, in his multi-award-winning column, that is exactly what Waleed Aly has done. In \u003cem\u003eReasoning with Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e, he revisits these articles, written during a concentrated period of profound upheaval, to see what they reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe columns are not simply reproduced: they are sorted into themes that give them new life, illuminating each other and highlighting common threads between disparate events that surprised even their author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTying all these together are twelve new essays that reflect upon the definitive elements of this chaotic age: parsing what is revolutionary in this moment but also what is not; examining our changing relationships with technology and each other; and identifying the things that really matter in life even as the upheaval tries to obscure them. 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