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Australasia
Anger and fear is real – but don’t blame migrants
Australia’s anger over housing, inequality and living costs is real, but blaming migration risks fuelling the populist politics of fear and division. Alan Gamlen Pearls and Irritations We are living…
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Asylum Seekers
From Tampa to The Justice Project: When a Crisis Creates…
The Tampa affair was one of them. Isla Hera In August 2001, a Norwegian cargo ship, the MV Tampa, rescued more than 400 people from a dangerously overcrowded fishing boat…
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Asia
Türkiye: Long Prison Terms for Children Accused of Crime
Uphold Child Justice Standards; Reject Harmful, Ineffective Approach (Berlin) – A new Turkish law that imposes heavy prison sentences on children found guilty of committing crimes is likely to cause harm…
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Analysis
Syria’s Hardest Transition: From Revenge to Justice
A war does not truly end simply because a government falls or political power changes hands. Fiona Ko Ko Violence leaves memories, fears and deep wounds behind. If these wounds…
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Features
Umberto Eco – When the Other Appears on the Scene
Does Morality Begin with the Other? Eva Ierides Dinos Toumazos In When the Other Appears on the Scene, Umberto Eco asks a simple but profound question: Where does morality come…
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Analysis
The New Geopolitics of the Sea
Ships crossed it. Empires controlled it. Traders depended on it. Navies fought over it. Dean Koyionis Today, the sea is becoming something more complicated. It is simultaneously a source of…
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Features
Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts
Can We Become Better by Learning to See More Clearly? Eva Ierides Dinos Toumazos In The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts, Iris Murdoch asks one of the oldest and…
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Africa
Spain: Humanitarian and Rights Crisis in Ceuta
Ensure Adequate Reception Conditions, Access to Information, Asylum (Milan) – The Spanish government and local authorities in its North African enclave Ceuta should act urgently to provide adequate shelter to…
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Features
Jean-Paul Sartre – Existentialism and Humanism
If We Are Free to Choose, What Are We Responsible For? Eva Ierides Dinos Toumazos In Existentialism and Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre begins with a difficult idea about what it means…
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Environment and Climate Change
Nature Does Not Negotiate
Human societies are built on negotiation. Isla Hera Governments negotiate budgets. Countries negotiate treaties. Businesses negotiate prices. Citizens negotiate competing interests and priorities. Democracies themselves depend on compromise, adjustment and…
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Democracy
Hannah Arendt – Civil Disobedience
Can Disobedience Help Protect Democracy? Artemis Orphanou Dinos Toumazos Hannah Arendt’s Civil Disobedience begins with a difficult democratic problem. Citizens are normally expected to obey the law. But what happens…
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Analysis
Fighting inflation without making inequality worse
Interest rates are a blunt tool for tackling inflation, and can hurt the people least able to absorb higher costs. Mark Diesendorf Pearls and Irritations Abraham Maslow, an eminent psychologist,…
