Jesus Wouldn’t See That Movie and Mohammed Wouldn’t Go On That Demonstration
Moderate Christians, especially those living in Western nations, are always shocked when they are reminded that Muslims, so unlike them, do not turn the other cheek when their religious symbols are attacked. Mocking Islam is tantamount to hugging a killer bees hive; the reaction is almost always homicidally violent. Muslims have become so predictable that, [...]
Study Shows that Climate Change is Killing Forests
Climate change is causing a massive forest die-off on almost every continent on Earth. Forests are already under threat from illegal logging and land clearing for agriculture. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, trees in forests all around the world are dying due to dry climatic conditions and elevated [...]
Cultural hegemony and social change
Introduction: Cultural Hegemony in Marxian and anti-Marxian Thought We live in the most difficult times since the Great Depression. Just as in the Great Depression when there was political polarization and weakening of bourgeois parliamentary democracy but no revolution, similarly in the early 21st century there is no sign of social uprisings in the Western [...]
21st century political economy: prospects & challenges
Introduction It is very difficult to make prognostications about the political economy during hard times amid a general climate of pessimism, but the same holds true when the economy is expanding and most people believe there is no end to the expansion. Public opinion surveys about economic conditions in the next decade and the possibility [...]
The Universality of Political Science Theory
Introduction There is an ongoing debate on the silence of social scientists from the developing world. Many people attribute this silence to idleness or worse, to the fact that non western scholars are imbibed by the ‘system’, by western thought and ideas. Both assumptions are ill-conceived and further from the trued, specifically when taking into [...]
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