Category: Politics
26th Amendment: Drafted Elsewhere, Deliberated by a Select Few, Passed in Supreme Haste
Umair Javed in Dawn: (T)his amendment carries the element of being person-specific, at least in the current moment.
‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”.
How Donald Trump Made Anti-Globalization a Right Wing Calling Card
Twenty-five years ago, fighting globalization was a cause of left-wing anarchists. How did it become a cornerstone of Trumpism?
The Future of Political Science
Impotence Through Relevance? Faustian Bargains, Beyond Impact and the Future of Political Science.
Autocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World provides an incisive exposition and analysis of how autocrats function in the world today…
Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky, the Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy.
Marshall Plans
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse”
How to Make Lying Unpopular in Politics
Lying matters. It poisons our discourse, breeds cynicism about government, and makes it difficult to have serious conversations…
Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
Balmurli Natrajan: “Hinduism has many aspects to it that have really nothing to do with Hindutva.”
Kishore Mahbubani on the U.S.-China Rivalry and More
Project Syndicate: Last year, you suggested that a prevailing “culture of pragmatism,” exemplified by the Association of…
The Week’s Best Cartoons, Chapter By Chapter
From The Week Newsletter: Selected editorial cartoons –this week by Joel Pett; Monte Wolverton; Bob…
Is the United States a Prisoner of Its Own Mythology?
Tom Zoellner in the Los Angeles Review of Books: The stories that a country tells…