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Don’t underestimate resilience of the smart new despotisms
A recent development is the smart character of new despotisms. A new perspective argues that it would be a mistake to underestimate their resilience.
Hypocrisy Gone Viral? Officials Set Bad COVID-19 Examples
Leaders are expected to be exemplary in their conduct yet some major world leaders have been bad models during coronavirus. A few have been exemplary.
An Atheist Perspective of Our Current Illness(es)
Understand, this is a critique of a set of values, myths and rules, not believers. It isn’t bigotry either. Objecting to a set of beliefs is all fair game.
COVID-19’s regime-type fallacy: Autocrats also feeling strain
Autocrats have transformed the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity to further restrict freedoms. But they also feel the strain.
COVID-19’s new pretexts for consolidating autocrats’ power
Coronavirus has inspired dictatorships in the world that are not wasting any opportunity to achieve even tighter grip on basic freedoms.
You don’t defeat the virus by bleeding democracy
The underlying issues around good governance, respect for human rights, austerity will not be stemmed by the coronavirus.
The political lessons of the coronavirus pandemic
Fyodor Dostoevsky once said in regards to prisons that you can tell a lot about a society by its response to epidemics of infectious disease.
Is democracy immune from the coronavirus?
Coronavirus is having deep socio-political and socio-economic impact across the world. A new perspective examines if it poses a threat to democracy.
Why democracies handle crises better than authoritarians
Authoritarians have instead taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to pursuing the suppression of freedoms outside the scope of public health.