Feudalism

Sidewalk Labs is Google’s sister company that sells “smart city” technology; its showcase partner is Toronto, my hometown, where it has made a creepy shitshow out of its freshman outing, from the mass resignations of its privacy advisors to the underhanded wa…

Europe's press has watched on with amazement at the continuing Brexit drama in Britain. Viewed from abroad the continent's papers report Boris Johnson being put in his place by a parliament he tried to defy fighting for survival after a strategic misstep bare…

In Kashmir, dissenting voices, even those of legislators and parliamentarians of opposition parties, have been muzzled. And with the lack of accountability suspension of phone and internet services in the Valley, the populace of Kashmir continues to remain in…

A KING, Bruce Springsteen has pointed out, aint satisfied til he rules everything. It was to thwart this route to royal satisfaction that 18th-century thinkers such as Montesquieu and James Madison came to prize the separation of powers. If the setting of pol…

Following yesterday's events which saw the Queen approve Boris Johnson's request to shut down parliament , there's a growing crescendo of social media clamouring to abolish the monarchy. It's not hard to see why, but, for the staunch royalists, here's a bre…

Photo credit: alittleblackegg on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-SA When I was 11, frustrated and sugar-crazed, I tried to open a Coke can with a steak knife. Id broken the cans pull-tab ring and shrewdly thought that I could plunge the knife through the aluminum …

A provocative account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold. We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by o…

In The First Marx: A Philosophical Introduction, Douglas Burnhamand Peter Lamb bring together Marx’s early writings in order to shape them into a distinct political philosophy. This is a diligently and rigorously researched work, writes Tarique Niazi, that wi…

The stereotypical image of a Renaissance man wears a ruff, a doublet and hose perhaps, and, very probably, a beard. And with good reason. The 16th and early 17th centuries saw a remarkable and ubiquitous fashion for facial hair among men. Physicians wrote abo…

General news Report: Israeli warplanes strike Palestinian base in LebanonBEIRUT (AP) 26 Aug — Lebanons state-run National News Agency says Israeli warplanes have attacked a Palestinian base in the countrys east, near the border with Syria. The report says th…