Conflict ravages the region of the Middle East. Not a day goes past without my reading in national media sources of hunger, poverty and war. U.S. involvement in the region is viewed by some as an important supporter of development, but by other’s as a m… more »

You might have heard the clarion call? Today is November 30th – a national day of strike for the United Kingdom. In Aberdeen, Plymouth, Cardiff, Belfast, London and Birmingham, indeed in all major cities and towns of the UK the streets are filled with p… more »

  Christopher Larkin -- Humans vs. Machines: The Race for Profit In 1930, John Maynard Keynes, a far-reaching influential economist, wrote in his essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren that they would experience “technological unemplo… more »

  Christopher Larkin 30th October 2011 The Occupy Wall Street Movement in American Political Thought ―God Forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.‖ Thomas Jefferson, 1787. This is the phrase plastered across Facebo… more »

  It‟s not something that‟s discussed too much in mainstream American discourse. Whenever I‟ve broached the topic of mandatory voting, I‟ve most usually heard the response, “but that‟s undemocratic.” Is it though? In anc… more »