Culture and Ideas
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Climate Debt: What Do Wealthy Nations Owe Their Poorer Counterparts?
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Climate change should be considered an issue of imbalanced power. The three main conditions of distributive justice show why rich nations owe poor nations for their climate misconduct. Furthermore, a crop of international legislation obligates rich nations to pay climate debt.
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Mad Max, Fury Road: Imagining Redemption in a Dystopian Representation of the Present
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Mad Max: Fury Road not only reproduces capitalist realism in its representation of a dystopian future, but also attempts to confront such realism, and spectral subjects play the role of protagonist in such confrontation.
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The Oxford School for Philosophers
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Is there in fact such a thing as ‘Oxford philosophy’, and, if there is, is it worth defending? These are the questions which Nikhil Krishnan seeks to answer.
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Why Work? On AI and Automation
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Any modern conversation about the future of work would be incomplete without considering the looming prospect of greater automation
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The Rhodes Scholarship and Disgorgement Principles for Historical Injustices
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Is it ethical for a Rhodes Scholar to keep the lump sum they receive from the foundation?
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Can Data Save American Democracy?
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Are big data platforms a lifeline for American democracy? Or is the solution premised on a misdiagnosis of the issues plaguing US politics?
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Barack Obama & St. Paul: Two Great Preachers Teaching Democracy
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My personal reflections on the health of our democracy have been inspired by both contemporary insights as well as historical spiritual advice.
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Don’t Let Concerns over Xi’s China Trump Vital Language Learning
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Teaching Chinese the right way today is an essential investment in Britain’s foreign policy future.
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Social Media, Democracy and the Fall of Fallibilism
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‘I like democracy’ – proclaimed a meme which had been circulating on social media for a couple of months after the 2016 US presidential election but is now near impossible to find – ‘provided that my candidate wins’. Squeezed between the two lines of text was a picture of a group of people holding various…
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Debating Privacy in Public in the Age of Surveillance
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Renewed attention to the meaning of privacy in the context of widespread surveillance suggests that conventional understandings of privacy are decidedly insufficient. Yet, is it even possible for us to recognize something occurring in public as private?