I’ve been thinking a lot about Emily Hobhouse lately. The British welfare activist who, in 1901, denounced the […]
Category Archive: Politics
In 1947, the Austrian philosopher Frederick von Hayek organized a gathering of economists, historians and philosophers at a […]
I had the chance to sit down and have an interview with Brian Wong, the founder of the […]
The year is 2014 and Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, announces a series of cuts to public spending across […]
In a years’ time, several books will come out chronicling the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, asking several key […]
For years, I’ve been reading and writing about the looming threat of automation, A.I. and new technologies, including […]
Lifetime employment has long been the cornerstone of corporate governance in Japan. College graduates at large firms have […]
In Political Liberalism, John Rawls argues that, “political power is always coercive power backed by the government’s use of sanctions, for government alone has authority to use force in upholding its laws” (Rawls 1993, p. 136).[i] In saying as much, Rawls is echoing a commonly held belief: that the state has the power to coerce its citizens, and this coercion prevents citizens from breaking the law. In most modern states, citizens are routinely threatened with arrest and incarceration if they do not abide by the state’s legal system. The language of “authority” is often used to justify this coercive action (Goffman 1982; Morris 2004, p. 196; Weber 1947).[ii]
During a recent Q and A event, American presidential nominee Bernie Sanders was confronted by a young man […]
In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,” those who […]
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