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Securing Supplies: How to Prevent Another Covid-19 Breakdown
According to AEI,, “the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of global supply chains during crises”, and it is impossible for any contemporary liberal democracy to build “all its needs domestically.” The report highlights that “governments must work with the private sector to exercise crisis scenarios”. (AEI, June 2021).
Reconsidering Taiwan's Place in the International Order: Lessons from the WHO and ICAO
In this article, Michael Mazza explains that “Taiwan has been excluded from partaking in the conversation about ensuring global public health”, and claims that as a response to this exclusion and that of the ICAO, Taiwan should encourage overhauling the rules-based order from which it has been excluded. (Mazza 2021)
The Wisdom of Small Crowds: The Case for Using Citizens' Juries to Shape Policy
The article promotes the use of Citizens’ Juries to shape policy, arguing that these Juries serve as a small representation of the public and, along with cynical expertise, can shape better policy and bring together different viewpoints for deliberation.
The Long Shadow of the Future
“We’re living through a real-time natural experiment on a global scale. The differential performance of countries, cities and regions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is a live test of the effectiveness, capacity and legitimacy of governments, leaders and social contracts” (Steven Weber and Nils Gilman, 2020).
What Is the Point of the Olympics?
“Tokyo in 2021 surely doesn’t need the Olympic Games. And yet, even during a pandemic, the Olympic army marches on, upholding its only ideal: making enormous amounts of money for itself, for sponsors, for property developers, and sometimes for corrupt politicians” (Buruma 2021).
The Measure of Moral Progress
“Mahatma Gandhi’s criterion for judging the greatness of a nation and its moral progress was its treatment of animals. By that standard, we cannot claim to have made much moral progress over the past two millennia” (Peter Singer, 2021).
How To Be An Anti-Anti-Racist
After “activism fueled by police killings of unarmed Black men, scholars and activists...and a cottage industry of diversity, equity and inclusion consultants led an accelerating anti-racism movement. But we are now witnessing the gradual unraveling of that movement as a way to address the very real problems of racial inequality in America” (John Torpey, 2021).
Silicon Valley's Thin Skin''s and Giant Egos
“From allegations that Bill Gates had been coming on to Microsoft employees to the $22.5 million settlement of a gender discrimination suit against Pinterest, women in Silicon Valley are speaking out against what is still a male-dominated culture” (“Sway” Podcast, 2021).
The Autocrat’s Legacy
“Even if the united opposition manages to form a government, it faces the arduous task of reversing Hungary’s democratic decline—a process that has seen its institutions undermined, its media curtailed, and its resources exploited by Orbán and his allies. Taking power will be hard, but the de-Orbánization of Hungary will almost certainly be harder” (Yasmeen Serhan, 2021).
How Academic Freedom Ends
“Across Hong Kong’s universities, eight of which are publicly funded, worries are growing over the lengths authorities will go to in their breakneck campaign to root out opposition voices and instill mainland-China-style controls” (Timothy McLaughlin, 2021).
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