Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

06 October 2014
Karl Muth takes readers on a journey down memory lane to show how a particular Chevrolet become a symbol of minority empowerment. Anyone who has spent time with me knows I have an…
02 October 2014
Karl Muth on why Hong Kong is increasingly looking like America. I was recently engaged in a debate with a very bright friend who is now at Georgetown Law Centre in Washington, D…
01 October 2014
The Post-2015 Consensus has published a second set of papers this time focused on Illicit Financial Flows in the post-2015 development agenda. Did you know that Africa has been a…
29 September 2014
Karl Muth explores calls for a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States. America is not in a Constitutional crisis. However, the phrase “Constitutional crisis…
25 September 2014
This post introduces the initial outputs from the Copenhagen Consensus Center’s Post-2015 Consensus project. The project's future outputs will be serialised on Global…
21 September 2014
Incredulity doesn’t kill curiosity; it encourages it. Though distrustful of logical chains of ideas, I loved the polyphony of ideas. As long as you don’t believe in them, the…
11 September 2014
Karl Muth suggests Detroit’s Somalian community might hold the key to the city’s revival.   After past trips to Somalia and Somaliland, I've argued that…
03 September 2014
In the context of recent events, Cornelius Adebahr welcomes initiatives to continue down the path of EU enlargement.  World events – and history – seem to converge on the…
21 August 2014
What do the BMW i8, Tesla Model S, and Cadillac ELR teach us about policy, subsidies, and consumer behaviour? The answer is: Lots. The BMW i8, which is sold out until the middle…
05 August 2014
As Joko Widodo is declared Indonesia’s President, new research has revealed the gap between richest & poorest has never been so great. Dr Arief Anshory Yusuf, Padjadjaran…