Yasheng Huang wants to ensure that honesty and decency don't put candidates at a disadvantage in future elections.
Donald Trump's campaign for US president showed how politically rewarding ignorance and dishonesty can be. For the sake of democracy, action is needed to entrench basic norms of decency and transparency in vital election campaigns. READ MORE
Peter Singer makes the case that ethical decision-making must depend on reason, not feelings.
Our emotions often motivate us to do what is right, but they are equally likely to motivate us to do what is wrong. In making ethical decisions, it is our ability to reason – not our ability to feel the pain of others – that should play a crucial role. READ MORE
Ian Buruma explains why a bust of Britain's wartime leader has no place in Donald Trump's Oval Office.
The cult of Britain's wartime leader has not been an altogether beneficial one for the US: too many US presidents fancy themselves Winston Churchill’s true heirs. President-elect Donald Trump is the least qualified by far to claim Churchill's mantle, though that appears unlikely to stop him. READ MORE
Arib Ali Al-Mandhari recommends strategies for empowering women to play a more active role in Middle Eastern societies.
Achieving gender equality in the Middle East will be a long process, requiring fundamental educational, social, and economic reforms. But giving women the right training now can kick-start the process, enabling more women finally to reach their potential – to the benefit of all. READ MORE
Helga Nowotny says that the best way to manage uncertainty is to embrace it in the spirit of free inquiry.
In a climate of fear, the rules of public discourse become obsolete, and the open horizon of possible futures is narrowed to a single escape route that fear-mongers have decided is the only way forward. This is a poor way to cope with uncertainty, and it stands in striking contrast to the methods of science and free inquiry. READ MORE
Robert Skidelsky thinks the discipline should require much more than aptitude for formal mathematical models.
Ishac Diwan explores how each country's political system will determine its future economic prospects.
Anne-Marie Slaughter & Jay Newton-Small ask what the world would have been like had 2016 turned out differently for would-be women leaders.
Nina L. Khrushcheva traces the course of US voters' declining capacity to distinguish lived reality from the virtual kind.
Peter Singer argues that repealing laws criminalizing the industry would reduce harm and boost public welfare.
Jan-Werner Mueller asks how Donald Trump's opponents should respond to his supporters – and to his administration.
Ian Buruma discerns in populism an amalgam of mass economic anxiety and the social rage of elite arrivistes.
Sławomir Sierakowski argues that both Donald Trump and Poland's Jarosław Kaczyński have picked the wrong enemy.
Bernard-Henri Lévy defends the selection of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Avner Offer argues that the prize's origin and the selection of winners reflect an ongoing political struggle.
Peter Singer defends Belgium's extension of its euthanasia law to minors.
Jean Pisani-Ferry examines how growth itself has become a source of political polarization.
Lee Jong-Wha believes that government measures to boost ultra-low fertility must focus mainly on women's needs.
Anne-Marie Slaughter & Alice Driver describe how women have moved to the forefront of the fight against state murder and femicide.
Kailash Satyarthi argues that access to quality education is a basic good that enables the provision of all others.
Robert Skidelsky thinks the discipline should require much more than aptitude for formal mathematical models.
Yasheng Huang wants to ensure that honesty and decency don't put candidates at a disadvantage in future elections.
Peter Singer makes the case that ethical decision-making must depend on reason, not feelings.
Ian Buruma explains why a bust of Britain's wartime leader has no place in Donald Trump's Oval Office.
Arib Ali Al-Mandhari recommends strategies for empowering women to play a more active role in Middle Eastern societies.
Helga Nowotny says that the best way to manage uncertainty is to embrace it in the spirit of free inquiry.
Ishac Diwan explores how each country's political system will determine its future economic prospects.
Anne-Marie Slaughter & Jay Newton-Small ask what the world would have been like had 2016 turned out differently for would-be women leaders.
Nina L. Khrushcheva traces the course of US voters' declining capacity to distinguish lived reality from the virtual kind.
Peter Singer argues that repealing laws criminalizing the industry would reduce harm and boost public welfare.
Jan-Werner Mueller asks how Donald Trump's opponents should respond to his supporters – and to his administration.
Ian Buruma discerns in populism an amalgam of mass economic anxiety and the social rage of elite arrivistes.
Sławomir Sierakowski argues that both Donald Trump and Poland's Jarosław Kaczyński have picked the wrong enemy.
Bernard-Henri Lévy defends the selection of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Avner Offer argues that the prize's origin and the selection of winners reflect an ongoing political struggle.
