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A new conception of privacy as an ambient, public good is necessary if we are to save our rights as individuals.
The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally…
Christine Corlet Walker asks if the solutions we promote to climate change are limited by what powerful organisations deem politically feasible?
You may have missed it, but a…
The Politics of Terror by Erica Chenoweth and Pauline Moore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 512 pp., £47.99 paperback 978-0-19-979566-6
Under the backdrop of…
Greg Falconer, Director of Innovation Policy at Nesta, offers Britain's new Prime Minister some advice on how to keep his promises to make the country a world leader in…
What does the term "globalization" mean? Is it a strictly economic phenomenon or does it involve several dimensions? How it is currently presented in the middle of the digital…
How can you forget when the internet won’t let you?
I have just taken an entire website and gigabytes of data offline. It covered a highly successful series of conferences on the…
Jason Hickel argues that we must not forget why inequality matters.
How should we measure inequality? There are two metrics that economists use: relative and absolute. In…
What if our homes were alive? I don’t mean smart homes with the disembodied voice of Alexa deciding the setting for your living room spotlights. I mean actually alive – growing,…
Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?
Mainstream politics in Europe and North America is increasingly…
Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War by Jana Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018. 306 pp., £75 hardcover 9781108471114
The…