Democracy is, by nature, a work in progress, and Western history has had very few occurrences when the “demos” became a politically self-conscious actor. What do these moments teach us?
Democracy’s Perversion
The United States is used to equating being “the greatest power in the world” and a democracy. But which is it? How and why a constitutionally limited government would turn into a superpower?
Who Wants to Be an Economist?
Can humanity thrive without destroying the planet? It all depends on your representation of the economic purpose, says Kate Raworth, a “renegade economist” working at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Create to Regenerate
“Ecological degradation is not a luxury concern for countries to leave on one side until they are rich enough to give it their attention,” says Kate Raworth. What are the steps toward an economy that would be regenerative by design?
The Hundred Year War Against Palestine
The Israelo-Palestinian conflict is not “complicated”; it is the story of a colonial enterprise that the Western world either supports or deliberately ignores, undermining the foundations of democracy.