“The history of greed, venality, stupidity, cruelty and violence is long because that part of human nature is ineradicable. As the 20th century demonstrated, it is better to bet on a liberal…
"In March, Hungary became the first democracy to succumb to the coronavirus. With stunning speed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban jammed through an emergency decree that gave him extraordinary…
"Across the globe, the economic and social systems we thought we understood have collapsed. Our expectations for normal life… have evaporated. We have no clear timeline on when normal will resume, or…
In this article, “Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams” discuss “the hope for a global new deal” (Varoufakis and McWilliams, 2020).
“As we approach this year’s election, we’re looking at an abyss. The question is what will fill it. Societal disaster can have horrific political consequences: Around the world, despots are using the…
“There are times when government must curtail individual freedoms to protect the public. But those measures must end once the threat passes” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
“Leadership may be hard to define, but in times of crisis it is easy to identify. As the pandemic has spread fear, disease and death, national leaders across the globe have been severely tested...the…
"Society’s deepest concerns are rooted right now in two connected questions: how do we protect public health and how can we promote an economic recovery that is inclusive? A third question is…
"In a recent interview, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, laid out how European leaders had a rendezvous with history and needed to come together... By all measures, this rendezvous with history…
"Democracies are far more effective at combating national crises, but that hasn’t stopped despots across the world from trying to tighten their grip." (Smith and Cheesman, 2020)
