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Hobbes: A Cambridge Story

This October, dozens of HSPS and HisPol students will arrive in Cambridge excited to be challenged academically and intellectually by new ideas and bold ways of thinking. Few of them know of the dangers: the cult that has…

By Editor, 4 weeks4 weeks ago
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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, 2 months2 months 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 months2 months 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, 4 months2 months 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, 4 months2 months 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, 5 months2 months ago
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Exam results—without exams

Students across the country will receive A-Level and BTEC results today. Under normal circumstances, these would be stressful times, but with coronavirus I can only imagine how challenging this must be. These students have not had the opportunity…

By Editor, 7 months2 months ago
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Expenses and pretences: how Daniel Zeichner is letting down his constituents

Without the 2009 expenses scandal, Brexit would never have happened. So suggest Emma Crewe and Andrew Walker in their recent book, An extraordinary scandal: the Westminster expenses crisis and why it still matters.

By Editor, 9 months2 months ago
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Does liberalism create good art?

The political compass test, flawed as it is, contains at least one insightful question. It asks participants what their opinion is about abstract art. The aesthetic and the political are intimately connected, and the former may not even…

By Editor, 10 months2 months ago
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In praise of inexperience

No two individuals are identical. No two individual human experiences are identical. So when we recognise characteristics familiar to our own or someone who shares similar experiences to our own, we find a kind of comfort.

By Editor, 10 months2 months ago

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