Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

20 January 2015
Karl Muth exlores the demographics of question and answer website Quora. I make no secret of how I spend my spare time. Much of it is spent reading. Much of the rest is spent on…
16 January 2015
Karl T. Muth advocates managing, rather than simply slashing, our level of emissions. As the 21st century moves onward, left-wing environmentalism continues to look more like…
15 January 2015
The Post-2015 Consensus' tenth set of papers explore the value of biodiversity, and estimate the benefits and costs of conservation. Biodiversity – the range of species…
09 January 2015
The Post-2015 Consensus' ninth set of papers focuses on climate change, why it is important and what targets should be set. Climate change has certainly received immense…
09 January 2015
In the past two decades we have passed through three phases of media ecology, and each has shaped a different way media have entered into the operations and understandings of war…
06 January 2015
Karl Muth argues that policymakers should approach suicide as a choice, and not a crime or a disease. After a recent suicide in my own family, and having recently revised my will…
18 December 2014
Karl T. Muth suggests Sony can fight back. I've advised companies in serious, bet-the-company situations. I suggest that Sony is in such a situation: its decisions this week and…
17 December 2014
Andy Sumner argues that it may be more useful to ask when aid works, not whether. The policy debate around whether foreign aid—now $138.5 billion a year—works has been polarized…
09 December 2014
Karl Muth explores how the form and manner of the UK’s integration with Europe is increasingly coming to define David Cameron’s career. In the wake of UKIP successes in the…
04 December 2014
The Post-2015 Consensus' latest set of papers suggest setting universal access to sexual and reproductive health services as a target for the post-2015 development agenda and…