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Guy Cools's List: Politics
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Oct 20, 12
Radicaal boek van advocaat bepleit twee aanklagers
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Sep 25, 10
ESSAY: Why our desperate leaders try but fail to hide behind the elderly heroes of the Few and some pensionable Second World War myths.
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Sep 18, 10
The expulsion of the Roma is not a simple case of racism. Rather, this act of aggression speaks to the profound crisis of the French Republic.
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Aug 28, 10
ESSAY: Western leaders and human rights groups are now slating Paul Kagame’s authoritarianism. Yet they nurtured and facilitated it for years.
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This is not simply a case of scientific activists forcing the so-called ‘evidence-based outlook’ on to politics – on the contrary, politicians themselves are increasingly turning to ‘the evidence’ to support their political propositions. In lieu of any clear moral convictions, and feeling themselves increasingly cut off from the electorate, political leaders invite experts to provide their policies with some form of moral authority.
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It’s worth remembering that the point of politics has traditionally been to represent the subjective, conflictual, real-world interests of actual people rather than to govern society in some kind of objective manner.
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