World Social Justice Day – 20 February
In February 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared 20 February “World Social Justice Day”. The concept of social justice can be traced to ancient religions and philosophies East and...
Non-human Democracy: Putting Inspirations, Lessons and Analogies to Work
This is the final part of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species. Part two argues that our all-too-human conception of democracy...
Non-human Democracy: In the Anthropocene, It cannot be All About Us
This is part two of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species, and considers how much we might gain from them in...
Non-human Democracy: Our Political Vocabulary has No Room for Animals
This is part one of a three-part essay that proposes a way of thinking about democracy that’s seldom, if ever, used. Despite the popularity in other disciplines of inter-species thinking,...
If We Are not Going to Burn Coal is There Another Reason to Mine It?
According to a team of researchers from Penn State University, there are rare-earth elements to be found in coal seams. This has been known for awhile but extracting them was...
Repairing the Policy-Making Processes of the United States: The First Step in Improving Its Defense
Former US Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Robert Gates explained on the January 21, 2016 Business Insider website that our military’s biggest weakness is sequestration, compounded by unpredictability in the...