Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

14 May 2018
Healing our relationship to finance is a pre-condition for building a grassroots-led investment fund that’s focused on wellbeing. I knew right then I was going to be schooled.…
11 May 2018
Four million lives could hang in the balance, but how Cape Town responds to her water crisis could set the example for cities around the world. Four million lives could hang in…
11 May 2018
This excerpt is from Steven Pinker's new book "Enlightenment Now". The book was chosen as May's book for the World Economic Forum Book Club. Each month, a new book will be…
10 May 2018
The estimated number of people worldwide displaced by conflict and violence reached an unprecedented 68.9m at the end of 2017. A relatively minor fraction of these…
10 May 2018
Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents, Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Edited by Fikret Adaman, Bengi Akbulut and Murat Arsel. IB Taurus, London 2017. This is a…
09 May 2018
The threat of a bad report card from the European Union has alarmed the more than 30,000 Vietnamese commercial traditional trawlers considered at risk of being deemed…
09 May 2018
Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East by Ezgi Basaran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 224 pp, £17.99 hardcover 9781784538415 The title of most intractable…
08 May 2018
Islamic radical groups, such as the Islamic State, seem to have become the substitute for a failed regional order and failing domestic conditions. The Middle East and North Africa…
07 May 2018
International Workers' Day grew out of 19th century working-class struggles in the United States for better working conditions and the establishment of an eight-hour workday. May…
03 May 2018
The two hundredth anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth is giving rise to many conferences dedicated to numerous (and God knows there were many) aspects of Marx’s work and  …