Jun 30, 2020
Protests against police brutality and racism have lately prompted many people to demand "Defund the Police." Peace activists, outraged by the $1.9 trillion spent annually on the military, add this demand: “Defund the Military." In this month's global town hall, 30 activists join Metta in discussing this as a realistic...
Jun 12, 2020
Nadezhda Kutepova was born and raised in a secret Russian city where plutonium was created for the Soviet (and now Russian) nuclear weapons. The inhabitants were (and still are) exposed to radiation without their knowledge, and in each family, some members died of it. Only when she was grown did Nadezhda learn why...
Jun 6, 2020
David Moscrop's book is titled, “Too Dumb for Democracy?" raises a question that liberal political thinkers normally avoid. Our complaints are usually against "deficits" in democracy. But suppose the problem instead is that normal citizens cannot cognitively process the information that is necessary to make wise...
Jun 5, 2020
In this month's Global Town Hall, ten Canadians chat with experts in Croatia, Russia, India, and Wales about the pandemic and the demonstrations against policy brutality now sweeping the US. Should we pick one issue at a time (e.g. nuclear weapons) or work on six or seven as a package? Is the priority to find great...