Culture and Ideas
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The ‘Unjust War’ Trap: Why We Should Not Rethink Civilian Non-Liability in Conflict
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While it is correct that non-combatants hold crucial relevance during a conflict, the risks posed by including them as lawful targets are overwhelming. I argue that this moral understanding of civilian liability risks justifying some expansive interpretations of the ‘military objective’ notion.
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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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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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Interview with Quentin Skinner
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Quentin Skinner is an intellectual historian and currently the Barbara Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London.
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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…