I, Donald? A classic view of Trump
By Marcus Wilson Marcus Wilson compares the characters of Donald Trump and the Emperor Claudius. How Suetonius would have loved Mr. Trump! As biographer of the Roman emperors, Suetonius had a sharp eye for the matching and mismatching of personal character with the...
Abusing power? The cartoonist in a post-truth world ▶
Image is all-important in politics, and image-making especially so. Politicians are supposed to create their own images, yet very often exploit negative and derogatory imagery in order to get noticed. Hitler deliberately borrowed Charlie Chaplin’s moustache, Margaret...
What do the British and French elections mean for geopolitics? 🔊
With the recent elections in the UK and France, what might the rise of Corbyn and the election of Macron mean for the global political forecast? Do these results give us clues about the future of Europe and European geopolitics with the United States? Maria Armoudian...
Q+A: What is the future of the United Nations in the Trump era?
The United Nations is facing multiple stressors, but among the largest is the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, who has expressed hostility toward the organisation. What does the future hold for the United Nations? What does it mean for the programmes...
How is Latin America fighting neoliberalism?
By Kathryn Lehman, Walescka Pino-Ojeda and Genaro Oliveira As critical media consumers, the next time we see protests against a government in Latin America, we may be observing the necessary exercise of democratic rights. Because the real catastrophe may be that...
Q+A: Are there blood minerals in your phone?
What is the relationship between minerals (such as oil, diamonds, and gold) and conflict, authoritarianism, and poverty? Scholars have spent years studying how the extractive industries impact people’s lives, their governance, and the environment throughout the...
Do democracies fail when they ask too little of their citizens?
By Stephen Cave Stephen Cave explores whether democracies fail when they ask too little of their citizens. ‘He turned out to be the same as every other politician.’ That was the complaint I kept hearing in Athens shortly after the leftist Prime Minister Alexis...
How might ‘Big History’ change our thinking about the role of humanity in the history of the Earth? 🔊
How might the approach of ‘Big History’ change our thinking about the history of the world and the role of humanity? Maria Armoudian talks to Jonathan Markley about the “Big History” movement and what we can learn from it. Jonathan Markley is...
Can cooperatives transform the nature of work? 🔊
Maria Armoudian talks to Jessica Gordon Nembhard about worker-owned cooperatives and whether they can transform workers’ lives and livelihoods. Jessica Gordon Nembhard is an Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the...Subscribe by Email
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