It is difficult to separate the soul and the state in Plato’s The Republic, as they are so intrinsic to…
What is politics? In 1936, Harold Lasswell succinctly defined politics as “who gets what, when and how”. To the layman…
With the explosion of social media, media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s claim that “the medium is the message” is arguably more…
Contemporary issues of foreign affairs suggest that Realism remains an essential paradigm for interpreting international relations, but should not be…
Back in 2015, New Zealand passed the Harmful Digital Communications Act, to address the ways people use technology to harm…
I wrote a constitution on the premise that the South Island of NZ had seceded from the North Island, and…
On 2nd November 2016, Gareth Morgan, a multimillionaire businessman and philanthropist, announced the formation of his new political party: The…
Before coming to Otago, I was a computer technician, and as such I build my own computers. I remember the…
The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution is a notable example of how racial interpellation can be enacted in surreptitious…
Jurgen Habermas stated, in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, “the public sphere as a functional element in the…