Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

12 April 2019
Brett Cherry on how universities can support the SDGs. The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide numerous opportunities for science and engineering to make a wider impact…
03 April 2019
Fukuyama, F. 2012. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX.    I mentioned in my last post in which I reviewed…
28 March 2019
Fukuyama, F. 2012. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX.    How do you write about a book that is almost 600…
28 March 2019
Surveillance of employees in the workplace through the use of advanced technology represents the latest phase in the long history of capitalism to maintain control of workers and…
25 March 2019
Faced with external and internal threats, Iran is resorting to old-style nationalism. This is not new per se, explains Cornelius Adebahr, but often overlooked in the wider debate…
28 February 2019
Branko Milanovic on the materials each dictator had to work with and what they meant for their legacies. Tito and Franco could not be, in many ways, more different: they were the…
27 February 2019
Scott L. Montgomery explores the Kingdom's nuclear ambitions. Much has been made in recent weeks about the Trump Administration’s attempted nuclear trist with the Saudis.…
26 February 2019
One of the most striking features of our era is the widening gap between rich and poor. In fact, wealth inequality may be higher today than any other era, although we lack the…
19 February 2019
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, 2018. Demain la Chine : démocratie ou dictature? Collection Le Débat, Gallimard.   Should you write reviews of bad books? Obviously not if the book is so bad…
11 February 2019
Branko Milanovic on Jason Hickel's important considerations for those interested in long-term global poverty rates.   I became somewhat peripherally involved in the…