Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

07 August 2024
Carbon dividends, public investment, and binding carbon-emissions reductions to commensurate reductions of toxic air pollutants from fossil fuels are three policies that narrow…
06 August 2024
Following Pezeshkian's victory, CMEG economist Mahdi Ghodsi explores replicating reformist-era economic growth, the challenges of international sanctions and domestic structures,…
01 August 2024
Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This would be…
31 July 2024
Martha Molfetas points to the elephant in the room holding back the SDGs.  Right now, only 17% of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) will be achieved by 2030. Climate…
22 July 2024
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. Lea Ypi. Penguin. 2021 It is not often that one in the process of learning of, or reading, a book develops three different opinions…
17 July 2024
Gregory T. Chin argues that the NDB's second decade will be shaped by how it navigates a world of worsening geopolitical and geo-economic tensions between rival…
16 July 2024
Shlomo Avineri’s Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution is an excellent introduction to some parts of Marx’s philosophy, but a very truncated book as far as other parts of Marx’s…
12 July 2024
Andrew Sherriff and Andy Sumner explore the rocky road ahead for the new UK government’s relations with the EU. So, the UK has a new government. What does it mean for post-Brexit…
12 July 2024
Whilst praising his achievements, Scott Montgomery asks whether Biden is the right man for the moment. For readers in the UK and Europe, America must seem like an…
10 July 2024
Fawaz A. Gerges argues that now, more than ever, it is in the long-term interests of the US to uphold the rules-based international order, not only in words but in deeds.  In…