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07 Nov 09

Political control, free will and informavorous agents (Carr, Rough Type)

  • The Web has been called a "database of intentions." The bigger that database grows, and the more deeply it is mined, the more difficult it may become to discern whether those intentions are our own or ones that have been implanted in us.
23 Oct 09

BBC - Mark Easton's UK: The picket and the postage stamp

  • On the Open Democracy website earlier this month, the philosopher and Scottish nationalist Tom Nairn posted an essay on the English postman as symbol of decline.
22 Oct 09

Cory Doctorow - the sci-fi future for entrepreneurial authors

  • Cory Doctorow kicks off a unique publishing experiment--and a monthly PW column
17 Oct 09

Greenspan recommends the banks be broken up ( - Bloomberg.com

  • “If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big,” Greenspan
    said today. “In 1911 we broke up Standard Oil -- so what
    happened? The individual parts became more valuable than the
    whole. Maybe that’s what we need to do.”
16 Oct 09

Intelligence Squared - The West should foot the bill for tackling Climate Change

  • The developing world has made clear that it will not agree a commitment to cut emissions without commitments of hard cash and without the West agreeing to impose upon itself interim targets for 2020. Gordon Brown attempted to seize the initiative by calling for rich countries to hand over $100bn (£60bn) each year to help the developing world cope with the effects of global warming - but the figure falls well short of the 1% of rich countries GDP that the G77 group of nations has suggested should be handed over in climate change funding.

Intelligence Squared - Biology is destiny (or Everything I do I do to get laid)

  • However the late nineteenth century also saw
  • This synopsis of the argument aims to give a taste of the vast debate on the question.

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Eurozine - Homecoming 2009 - Will Brady

  • This is, nevertheless, as many sociological studies have confirmed, an extremely complex undertaking, and one benighted with paradoxes, misconceptions, and problems of definition. Robin Williams, in his article, The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts, asks, "How is ethnicity related to 'nation' and 'nationality'?" Hypothetically, the answer seems straightforward enough: "A nation is a politically conscious ethny, claiming statehood rights on the basis of common ethnicity... Nationalism is an ideological movement in support of a nation." In practice, however, this definition runs into difficulties. "Since few territorial (national) states are populated by a single ethny, the term 'nation-state' is muddled and intellectually dangerous". This is certainly true in the case of Scotland, as Anthony Cohen has pointed out in Personal Nationalism: A Scottish View of Some Rites, Rights, and Wrongs, 1996:

Intelligence Squared - Democracy is not for everyone

  • But western-style liberal democracy is still the norm in around 100 countries around the world that adhere to the holy trinity of free votes, free markets and the rule of law.”
  • The relationship between democracy and freedom was stated by Joseph Schumpeter: "If everyone is free to compete for political leadership by presenting himself to the electorate, this will in most cases, though not in all, mean a considerable amount of freedom of discussion for all, in particular it will normally mean a considerable amount of freedom of the press. This relation between freedom and democracy is not absolutely stringent and can be tampered with... At the same time it is all there is..."

Intelligence Squared - Democracy is not for everyone

  • Russia under Vladimir Putin has experienced a backward slide towards authoritarianism and political crises in the Balkans, the Ukraine, Moldova and the Caucasus have raised questions about the strength of the democratic transition on Europe's periphery.
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