Aquaman: a New Year Parable In Race and Ethnicity
The recent Hollywood adaptation of Aquaman provides an important metaphor for racial conflict, and a timely talking point in modern society.
Habitus: Why Positive Law Is Better than Originalism or Post-Modernism in Law
Positive law stands as a tradition that predates post-modernism and post-structuralism; and, yet, it persists as an important corrective to them in their extremes.
Courts: The Quagmire
The Bar Associations have substantively failed to regulate their own people, contributing to a decrease in public trust in the judicial system at large.
What Is Nationalism? A Nation? A Nationalist?
In principle, the nation-state is an institutional means precisely to democratize the international system.
The Theatre of Politics: Politics as Oscar Broadway
Politics is compared to theatre due to the growing trend of passion play; a trend which is argued does not contribute positively to coexistence or commonality.
International Travel Is a Risky Business: Research, Study, & Proselytizing
When travelling abroad, there are typically no rights to protest nor to challenge or undermine laws in a foreign national context.
Fiction, Film & Empiricism: Comparative Politics as Action and Adventure
Works of art in novels, classic travelogues, and film have a strong, evocative power for students of comparative politics.
Border Crossings: Our Criminals, Their Criminals, and “Good Fences”
Not all borders are the same. But they all share one thing in common: people will cross them illegally if they can – if only for the fun of it.
A Bit of Bedouin Perspective on World Politics Today
The film ‘Sand Storm’ sparks greater questions regarding modernity and whether it really requires the destruction of alternative ways of life.
If There Was a Time to Support Reformists in Iran, It’s Now
With Iran and Israel coming perilously close to the risk of war, now is the time to support reform in Iran.
