Feudalism

The 2020 presidential field is saturated with candidates decrying wealth inequality and making the argument to soak the rich. One front-runner, for instance, is constantly denouncing the millionaires and the billionaires. Ominously, a New York Times poll foun…

A Big Storm The Day Before Thanksgiving? Mother Nature is a drama queen. Yes, it's been a cold November, and where are we living when 40s feel like sweet relief? In spite of a few feeble clippers, November has been storm-free and snowfall amounts are running…

If capitalism has triumphed to become the sole socio-economic system globally, what are the prospects for achieving a fairer world? In his new book Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, Branko Milanovic examines the historical shif…

If you are interested in this book review, you can listen to a podcast of Branko Milanovic speaking at the LSE public event, ‘Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World’. Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World.…

Kiev (AFP) - Ukrainian lawmakers on Wednesday backed a key bill to create a land market and open up the sale of farmland from 2020, despite a feared public backlash. "This day will go down in the history of Ukraine," Prime Minister Oleksiy Goncharuk, who was…

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to remove a ban on the sale of farmland for the first time in nearly two decades, a move supported by the country’s foreign backers that risks a political backlash. The proposal must be voted on a seco…

As harsh austerity and xenophobic nationalism fester in Europe, Yanis Varoufakis discusses his antidote with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White. What inspired your career trajectory from academic economist to prominent supranational activist? I went into poli…

Our way of life is a miracle for this kind of world, and the danger lies in thinking that of it as natural and likely to endure without a passionate determination on our part to preserve and defend it. W.V. Aughterson, The Australian Way of Life, 1951 For ge…

Pretoria News / 12 November 2019, 06:53am / Shannon Ebrahim Ronnie Kasrils in conversation with Independent Medias group foreign editor, Shannon Ebrahim, at Exclusive Books, Brooklyn, for the launch of his memoir, Catching Tadpoles: The Shaping of a Young Re…

If capitalism has triumphed to become the sole socio-economic system globally, what are the prospects for achieving a fairer world? In his new book Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, Branko Milanovic examines the historical shif…