Hong Kong and Arunachal Pradesh as double-edged swords in China’s national identity project Introduction The British Empire, with its colonies and mandates in the five continents, can be considered one of the largest and most important ones in history, not only due to its territorial expansion but also due to the political and cultural influence…
Article I – Can Freud’s taboos fix a broken democracy? “On Niuē, a coral island in the Pacific Ocean, monarchy actually came to an end because nobody was willing to undertake the responsible and dangerous office.” Now substitute the word ‘monarchy’ for ‘democracy.’ Is this more familiar to you now? Let me bring another example….
“Insufficient data for meaningful answer” is the response that, time and time again, all those who ask the supercomputer of their time, first Multivac, then Microvac until they reach the Cosmic AC, about the inevitable reversal of the universe: entropy. For several weeks now I’ve been wanting to share a couple of ideas that haunt…
“A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood […]. A day will come when we shall see […] the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.” Just months before Victor Hugo’s speech at the…
