Why we should still be reading Democracy in America
Editor’s note: On the occasion of Independence Day, we felt it appropriate to reprint, from our...
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03
July
2015
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Greek debt crisis: Europe feels like a madhouse – interview with ABC Radio
Originally published on ABC The World Today 2 July 2015 Greece's Prime Minister is vowing to press...
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02
July
2015
The European Madhouse
The Law of the European Union Universiteit Leiden Last week’s visit to Berlin, peppered by many intensely interesting...
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29
June
2015
John Keane
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Why Google is a Political Matter?: A conversation with Julian Assange
Since the last time we were together inside his prison lodgings at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a...
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09
June
2015
June 4th 1989: Silence, Power and Politics
‘Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent’, wrote the young Ludwig Wittgenstein in his...
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05
June
2015
John Keane
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The End of Representative Politics?
[caption id="attachment_9806" align="alignnone" width="800"] Acampada, Barcelona, 21/05/1011[/caption] The following notes on the future of democratic representation were...
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20
May
2015
John Keane
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Why Read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America?
The following remarks on a famous work by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) were presented...
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08
May
2015
Why Google Is A Political Matter
A public lecture held by the School of Communications at the Hong Kong Baptist University on...
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01
April
2015
General
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Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet empire, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama...
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04
March
2015
Talking a bird down from a tree: a conversation with Chee Soon Juan
Singapore is facing political uncertainty with the dominating figure of Lee Kuan Yew in hospital on...
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25
February
2015