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No change on climate change

I’m sure anyone that reads this will agree that the climate crisis is real, global, and an existential threat to humans and the Earth. I don’t need to run through a list of panic-inducing statistics: the average global…

By Editor, 1 week1 week ago
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Liberal violence [revised]

The purpose of the first version of this essay, written in April of last year, was to examine some of the prominent liberal theories over the last few centuries, and suggest a liberal model of violence between…

By Editor, 2 weeks1 week ago
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Killing for votes

Earlier in October, US Attorney General Robert Barr gave the greenlight for the execution of Lisa Montgomery. Though she was convicted of a very serious (capital) crime—she had killed…

By Editor, 3 months2 weeks ago
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A nuanced defence of Nate Silver; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the uncertainty

There is a good chance that I’ll look very silly by writing my thoughts on this topic down before the election. I could wait until November 4th before penning some polemic for or against Nate Silver—declaring after the fact that…

By Editor, 3 months3 weeks ago
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Should the UK’s borders be more open or more closed?

For years, we liberals have decried our opponents on the left and right for their hopelessly facile solutions to deeply complex problems. Witness Labour deciding higher education could be solved by “just making it free”; the Conservatives claiming…

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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What should the UK’s international aid primarily aim to achieve?

In the Tory manifesto for the 2015 election, the party pledged to keep the Department for International Development independent within Whitehall. Yet just five years on, Prime Minister Johnson has…

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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What is the left?; and other ramblings

There are at least two major models for understanding politics in the West, and indeed across the world. The first is the well-known left-right spectrum, where parties are situated in terms of their leanings and policies. It’s hard…

By Editor, 4 months1 week ago
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Does the UK’s green belt policy need reform in light of the mounting housing crisis?

With eight million Britons living in housing that is overcrowded, unaffordable or otherwise unsuitable, more and more adults lodging with their parents, and as increasing numbers finding themselves homeless, it seems the housing crisis has in recent years…

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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Are the economic ideas of Karl Marx important today?

If Teen Vogue is a good indicator of the state of popular discourse (and of course it is), Marx is back. As the liberal capitalist order is facing its biggest crisis since 1945, people are returning to its most famous critic. This is deeply unfortunate.

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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Is there an overwhelming argument for or against protectionism, or is the reality of the situation a lot more ambiguous?

This society takes the view that traditional tariff protection, overall, is bad for societal welfare; but given the growing prevalence of non-tariff measures, the welfare effects of neo-protectionism are a lot more ambiguous.

By Editor, 5 months3 weeks ago

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