Politics

2020-03-25T18:21:20+01:00

In an article by Standpoint Magazine Joseph Rachman uses insights from author Umberto Eco to understand the rise of new far right movements. I found the following quote interesting …

2020-03-15T11:29:23+01:00

Listened to two great podcasts from the BCC series “In Our Time” related to political economic theory from the late 18th century: One podcast episode about “The Wealth of Nations”, …

2020-02-12T15:58:05+01:00

Fisnished watching a documentary from DW Documentary, “The Big Bang that created today’s world”. The two part documentary gives an overview of important events in 1989 that still …

2020-02-06T09:08:39+01:00

Philosophy Overdose published this short clip of Michel Foucault discussing power in an interview with André Berten from 1981.

2019-01-15T16:07:36+01:00

In response to the protests of the gillets-jaunes the President Emmanuel Macron has started a “grand débat national” to discuss the grievances. In an opinion piece for AOC-media, …

2019-01-14T14:27:20+01:00

An interesting interview with Professor Mark Blyth on the “crisis of globalisation”. His view on commodification of our personal data seems a bit unsophisticated though: how would …

2018-08-21T13:15:18+00:00

Fifty year ago today the Prague Spring dream was crushed.