The more complex the functions which the state assumes, the more subordinate the bureaucrats on whom the citizen’s fortune depends.
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In an excellent article in the New York Times, Christy Wampole, Associate Professor at Princeton University, explains how abstractions in politics can have deadly consequences.
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This image says it almost all. A proposed tax on WhatsApp calls and suddenly there is a revolutionary movement.
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In 1992 former Czech President Vaclav Havel gave an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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The great British economist John Maynard Keynes is reputed to have once quipped to someone, “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
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Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, best known today for his personal philosophical writings in his book Meditations, is proof that wisdom and politicians need not be mutually exclusive.
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Jamie Bartlett’s recent book outlines dangers of the digital revolution and offers possible solutions on how we can protect our personal privacy, and democracy itself.
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As the political temperature rises across the world, John Bell, Ivan Tyrrell and John Zada explain why they founded The Conciliators Guild, and their hopes for it.
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Serkan Yolaçan, a research fellow at the Middle East Institute at the University of Singapore, shares his views about the effectiveness of mercantile and religious networks as channels of informal diplomacy..
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Sir John Bagot Glubb, a little-known British soldier with long ties to the Middle East, wrote a manifesto about the rise and fall of empires that should be on everyone’s reading list.
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American Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt overturns our assumptions that our political beliefs are the result of logic and informed conscious choice.
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North and South Korea appear to be finding their way to peaceful relations after decades of conflict and strife.
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