Moving beyond GDP
How do you measure the wealth of a nation? Is the modern world too focused on economic growth at all costs?
What is soft power?
Soft power is the ability of a country to influence international affairs through cultural, reputational and persuasive means rather than the brute hard power of military or economic ways.
Gettier cases
The American philosopher Edmund Gettier argued in a famous paper in 1963 that we can have a JTB and yet still not have knowledge…
Deductive and inductive arguments
In everyday speech, we say, ‘You make a valid argument’, ‘You have a valid point’, ‘That’s a sound point’, ‘That’s a good argument’, ‘That’s a strong argument’ and so on. This is rather loose-speak.
E-sports in South Korea
Would you like to spend eight to sixteen hours a day playing on the computer?
President Trump’s Project Vault
On 2nd February 2026 the US President Donald Trump announced that America will establish a US$12bn rare earths stockpile called Project Vault.
A new world order?
The Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, gave a speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos on 20th January 2026.
The Economist’s Democracy Index
The Democracy Index is published by the Economist Intelligence Unit which is part of The Economist Group, who produce the weekly newspaper The Economist.
What is POFMA?
In an era of increasingly sophisticated ‘fake news’, POFMA is a response of Singapore to help protect its public against online harm by countering falsehoods posted online.