"Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble… As economies reopen, activity will recover, but don’t expect a quick return to a carefree world of unfettered movement and free trade. The…
"To combat the coronavirus, the state has grown more powerful. What does that mean for liberty and the democratic norms that protect us?" (McTague, 2020)
"During this period of the pandemic, many have remarked how well the national cabinet has worked. It would seem that we need a crisis for politicians to leave politics at the door… With COVID, a…
"The French economist Thomas Piketty is the bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) and its follow-up, Capital and Ideology (2019), a sweep through 1,000 years of the history…
"Could the Covid-19 crisis accelerate the adoption of a new, more equitable and more sustainable development model? ... There must be a clear change in priorities and a certain number of taboos in…
“More than a thousand years before the Greeks invented democracy and the Romans undermined it with imperialism,” Ugarit and Mycenae “of the Bronze Age laid the foundations for what is often called…
“The history of greed, venality, stupidity, cruelty and violence is long because that part of human nature is ineradicable. As the 20th century demonstrated, it is better to bet on a liberal…
"In March, Hungary became the first democracy to succumb to the coronavirus. With stunning speed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban jammed through an emergency decree that gave him extraordinary…
"Across the globe, the economic and social systems we thought we understood have collapsed. Our expectations for normal life… have evaporated. We have no clear timeline on when normal will resume, or…
