The Middle East Conflict: What Would Albert Einstein Have Said?
Albert Einstein’s genius for unconventional thinking offers a provocative framework for breaking today’s deadly stalemate through economic compensation.
Trump’s Attacks on Academia: Is the U.S. University System Itself to Blame?
Amid Donald Trump’s hostility towards universities the question remains: how did the US leading scholars lose trust?
Why Trump Keeps Winning: The Truth No One Admits
Anger, not just inequality, drives white working-class voters—progressives must face uncomfortable truths to push back.
Totalitarian Democracy: How Populist Leaders Are Undermining Democracy
Populist leaders exploit democracy to consolidate power, dismantle institutions and sideline expertise.
Nobel Prize in Economics: Do Democracy and Prosperity Really Go Hand in Hand?
This year’s Nobel laureates link democracy to economic success, but their theory ignores autocratic growth and rehashes old ideas.
What is the ‘free’ in ‘Palestine should be free’?
The left has often been embarrassed by association with ‘liberation’ movements which became custodians of authoritarian states.
What works for the left? Liberal socialism
As the European Parliament elections loom, with the populists rising, progressives need a liberal-left narrative.
The idea of a liberal socialism
Liberalism and socialism have been wrongly counterposed. Connected, they represent a hegemonic alternative.
Israel-Palestine: a comparative perspective
An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.
Europe and the future of US democracy
Europe needs to address the risk come 2024 of facing not only a non-democratic superpower to its east—but to its west too.
When capital relinquishes ownership
As the ownership of firms becomes transferred to algorithmically-controlled index funds, why not put their human employees in charge instead?
What saved American democracy?
Democracy in the United States survived the assault by Donald Trump and his supporting mob. But why it survived raises questions awkward for some.
What to do about economic inequality?
Economic inequality has burgeoned as income from capital has risen faster than growth. Time to change the owners of capital.
Politics Of Fear Versus Politics Of Hope
There are many different ways to understand the dimensions of politics. The classic right-left scale has dominated most European politics for over a hundred years
Strange Bedfellows Undermining Liberalism: Trump And Academia
For people like myself, working as a social science researcher, these are very strange times. Almost any colleague, in whatever discipline you talk with, will
UBI: A Bad Idea For The Welfare State
In its admittedly noble striving for increased social justice, the political left has historically had several ideas that, one might dare claim, were not particularly