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The years since 9/11 have cast a dark shadow over global politics in many respects. But we have the option of recalling where the pursuit of authoritarianism leads.
The…
A powerful new report finally kills off any remaining intellectual veil for a broken economics that is breaking society.
Sometimes an ideology is so brilliantly propagated that…
Hakan Altinay explores the transformative potential of conversations.
A conversation is a ubiquitous activity in which we engage without much reflection. It may nevertheless be…
Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives. Kate Crehan. Duke University Press. 2016.
In Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives, Kate Crehan…
A paradox: the more “communist” the sharing license used in the digital commons (no restrictions on sharing), the more capitalist the practice (multinationals can use…
Michael Tierney reviews the patchy record of international sanctions regimes and proposes a way forward.
Since the end of the Cold War, the West has increasingly utilized…
A wide range of politicians and media outlets have described the alleged Russian interference in the last US presidential election (by way of hacking) as representing a direct…
“What is happening in the politics of the US particularly, but also in other countries, is that identity in a form of nationality or ethnicity or race has become a proxy for…
As we move towards a jobless world, Davos participants give their views on what it may mean for our wellbeing and our identities.
“If you went back 10,000 years and spoke…
When a system calls itself democracy, but forces increasing parts of the demos (people) to live under poverty, its own central concept gradually becomes hollow.
Since early…