Politics
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The Story of Emily Hobhouse: Pacifism and Hope
I’ve been thinking a lot about Emily Hobhouse lately. The British welfare activist who, in 1901,…
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The World According to Neoliberalism
In 1947, the Austrian philosopher Frederick von Hayek organized a gathering of economists, historians and philosophers…
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The Oxford Political Review: An Interview with Brian Wong
I had the chance to sit down and have an interview with Brian Wong, the founder…
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How Australia Became a Conservative Nation
The year is 2014 and Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, announces a series of cuts to public…
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Can Bernie Sanders become the President of the United States?
In a years’ time, several books will come out chronicling the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, asking…
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Can Andrew Yang Become U.S. President?
For years, I’ve been reading and writing about the looming threat of automation, A.I. and new…
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Lifetime Employment in Japan: Casual Work, Part-Time Work and Women under Equal Opportunity Law
Lifetime employment has long been the cornerstone of corporate governance in Japan. College graduates at large…
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The Non-Coercive State: The Creation of Pacifist Societies
In Political Liberalism, John Rawls argues that, “political power is always coercive power backed by the…
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Bernie Sanders and the Fight Against Political Apathy
During a recent Q and A event, American presidential nominee Bernie Sanders was confronted by a…
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An Entitlement Complex, or Gen Y’s Quest for Meaning?
In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,”…
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