Category: Politics
In Some Kind of Justice, Orentlicher Assesses Record of UN Criminal Tribunal
by Aryeh Neier | Aug 19, 2018 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsIt is now a quarter of a century since the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This decision marked the first time an international court had been established to prosecute and punish those who had committed atrocious crimes—war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide—since […]
Understanding AI as a Business Model and the Prize in Global Competition
by Evgeny Morozov and John Thornhill | Aug 8, 2018 | Politics, TechnologyThe writer and technology critic Evgeny Morozov appeared recently at FutureFest in London for a conversation on the Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence with John Thornhill of the Financial Times. The Spectator presents edited highlights of this landmark interview as part of its continuing coverage of the fast evolving AI terrain. Thornhill: In September 2017, Vladimir […]
In this Month’s Issue: August 2018
by | Aug 1, 2018 | Economy, Foreign Policy, PoliticsFrench Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class By Steven Pressman As the campaign season enters its final stages, torrents of empty rhetoric and wasted column inches are being devoted to the fate of American middle-class families. Proposals ranging from health saving accounts, student debt forgiveness, even guaranteed minimum income plans have been advanced as […]
May Primaries Offer Hope and Challenges for the Democratic Left
by Richard Eskow | Jul 22, 2018 | Elections, PoliticsReporters who cover primaries, especially in off-years like 2018, often find themselves in a quandary. They’re expected to find meaning in each election’s results. But not many people vote in these primaries, and local issues are often more important than national ones. The resulting journalistic pronouncements are often built on sand, vulnerable to being washed […]
Letter From Berlin
by Michael Naumann | Jul 13, 2018 | PoliticsIn April 1945 I was liberated in my hometown of Koethen by US forces. I did not understand this, of course. I was only three years old and had survived a number of allied bombing runs in the basement of our house with my mother and my three siblings. My father had died at Stalingrad […]