Should Robots Have Rights? Why or Why Not?
Reading Time: 7 minutes ‘A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer’. [1] The robots of today form a wide spectrum of intelligence, yet […]
The Capitol Hill Riots: Important Takeaways
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Image Credit: Twitter @nbcnews) For a long time, it has been a popular belief that countries like America could facilitate peaceful political discussion, but the riot at the Capitol building […]
Should Comedians from Minority Groups Base their Comedy on Stereotypes and Slurs about their own Groups?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Political correctness is often portrayed as a shackle that censors any form of self-expression. In this current political landscape, comedy is one of the last safe houses where people feel […]
Should the EU Abandon the Euro?
Reading Time: 4 minutes On January 1st 1999, the EU unveiled their new currency to the world: the Euro. A currency that was supposed to promote economic growth, stability and integration, it has now […]
An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Reading Time: 19 minutes Professor Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguistic, philosopher and political activist. Currently Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has been the author of over 100 books […]
Identity Politics: What is it and why is it problematic?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Barack Obama famously declared: “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” A decade and a half later, […]
An Evaluation of The Centrality of Sport to National Identity
Reading Time: 4 minutes The fabric that is a national identity is composed of shared experiences, stories and concepts that are dispersed among a particular group of people. Historically these have often centered around […]
Should we advocate for democracy as an innate human right?
Reading Time: 5 minutes A human right is not something that can be traded off for something else. Rights are absolute, there are no caveats and they must be upheld regardless. Democracy is often […]
An Interview with Michael Spence, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Reading Time: 9 minutes I had the privilege of being able to interview Michael Spence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. A professor at the business schools of New York University […]
“Good Economics for Hard Times” by Duflo and Banerjee
Reading Time: 3 minutes Good Economics for Hard Times is the second general readership publication of the husband and wife, Nobel-prize winning pair of Duflo and Banerjee. Their first book, Poor Economics, published in […]