Culture and Ideas
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The Roman Emperor
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In Emperor of Rome, Beard’s concern is not to narrate the rise and fall of individual emperors but to explain ‘what it meant to be a Roman emperor.’
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Welcome to the Nostalgia Doom Loop
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We seem to be trapped in a ‘doom loop’ of nostalgia. Why is this the case?
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The Power & Perception of Political Caricatures in Light of Recent Cross-Border Controversies by Charlie Hebdo
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Can political caricatures be too controversial? Who gets to decide? And which side prevails in the inevitable clash between decriers of hate speech and defenders of freedom of expression?
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Arriving in Style: The Importance of Public Transit Design
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Brits, and especially Londoners, have become well acquainted with the value of well-designed public spaces, including economic, political, and well-being benefits.
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The Right Identity: What the Tories Can Tell Us About Liberation Politics
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The claims made by the Tory party and much of the right-wing press, as well as the focus on the surface-level diversity of these candidates demonstrate, reveal a fundamentally individualist understanding of what identity and liberation politics look like and aim to achieve. In this essay, I want to demonstrate how the Tories are shifting…
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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.