Feudalism

As the dust settles and everyone continues to take make sense of the final season of Game of Thrones, we’re beginning to see networks making their move on the current power vacuum. Coming in from the left field is the announcement that Japanese “Game of Thron…

Future Forward Party (FFP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit appears to be a man in a rush and a man who enjoys controversy. Remember when, not long ago, he suggested that Thais should stop addressing those who are more or less senior in terms of age as b…

(Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal) Something very important happened in this general election. Sadly for our opposition leaders, they have not noticed. So their analysis of why they have nearly all ended up on the wrong side of history ranges from the petulant…

Part of the appeal in being a worker on new gig-economy platforms like Uber or Taskrabbit is the apparent autonomy, the feeling of not having a boss. Sure, an app on your phone is your new boss, and through it a large, transnational corporation whose investor…

Home ownership has been called the quintessential American dream. Yet today less than 65% of American homes are owner occupied, and more than 50% of the equity in those homes is owned by the banks. Compare China, where, despite facing one of the most expensiv…

In December 2017, Tsukasa Uemura was appointed Japans ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). It was not his first posting to the country; 20 years before, he had been appointed to the KSA to serve as a councilor of political affairs. In the interven…

"Liberty tends inevitably to lead to the just equivalence of services, to bring greater and greater equality, to raise all men up to the same, constantly rising standard of living, it is not property that we should blame for the sad spectacle of …

One For All Lab-grown meat could feed the world. Renewable energy could power it. Automation could save us from mind-numbing jobs. But only if capitalism is replaced with a form of communism that deploys these technologies to the benefit of the many. At lea…

As a web designer or developer, you play a big role in protecting your clients as well as the people who will eventually use the website(s) you build. Yet, most web designers I talked to don’t feel like protecting their client’s privacy is part of their job. …

Whats more, renewable energy, which has been experiencing steep annual falls in cost for half a century, could meet global energy needs and make possible the vital shift away from fossil fuels. More speculatively, asteroid mining whose technical barriers are …