Category: Politics
The FARC- A Historical Background
Reading Time: 5 minutes Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries experienced successive waves of internal conflict, political instability and foreign intervention. Colombia was no exception, as its pristine, beautiful swathes of countryside […]
The Problem of Nationalism in Japan
Reading Time: 11 minutes Although the term Japanese in the constitution is used to refer to people holding Japanese citizenship, the reality of the situation is very different: Japan is a mixture of various […]
The Future of the Democrat Party
Reading Time: 12 minutes Barack Obama famously paraphrased Martin Luther King Jr and 19th-century abolitionist Theodore Parker when he said that ‘the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice’. Unfortunately, the […]
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Socio-Psychological Barriers to Peace
Reading Time: 10 minutes Introduction The Arabs and the Jews have co-existed without grievances for millennia. It is a tragedy that struggle for dominance between the two has become entrenched, resulting in a Gordian […]
On Concepts and Society
Reading Time: 4 minutes Plato is perhaps the most well-known philosopher to be associated with an essentialist position. He maintained that everything we have a name for has an ideal essence of which we […]
The Bigger Picture: Progress not just politics
Reading Time: 3 minutes For a species that still in many ways acts like it still roams and hunts on the African savannah, we have gotten used to modern life. It seems like a […]