Feb 10, 2022 | Politics & Society
By Carolina Perez Dattari A new constitutional convention is imagining a country radically different from the one forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet. When Chile overwhelmingly elected Gabriel Boric on 19 December, I was elated. Left-wing Boric had been...
Sep 9, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By James Meadway From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are abandoning free-market policies. Could it be that the free-market policies that have dominated policymaking for the past 40 years are finally on their way out? In the past six...
Nov 23, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Walescka Pino-Ojeda Chile’s road towards drafting a non-neoliberal constitution has been long and painful, according to Walescka Pino-Ojeda. In the mid-1970s, making reference to Chile, Milton Friedman stated: “it was the first case in which you had a movement...
Oct 26, 2019 | Politics & Society
The nation of Chile is “at war” – or so says the president Sebastián Piñera as a wave of protests has swept the South American country for the last week. Piñera has declared a state or emergency, calling in the military, and putting in place curfews, including the...
Feb 4, 2019 | Politics & Society
Venezuela is once again at a crossroads. The opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself the interim leader of the country, while calls are growing internationally for President Nicolas Maduro to step aside. But what is the historic context behind the ongoing...
Sep 26, 2018 | Business & Economics
What does it mean to be responsible? And how has neoliberalism changed our conception of personal responsibility? Maria Armoudian speaks to Susanna Trnka about the factors that shape our lives and our ways of being: ideas, events, and what she calls...
Dec 20, 2017 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
What does the future hold for universities, and why does this matter for the rest of society? Cris Shore, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, is co-editor (with Susan Wright) of a new book entitled Death of the Public University? Uncertain Futures...