Meritocracy: Merit, myth or paradox?
British sociologist Michael Young coined the term "meritocracy" in 1958, describing it as the “oligarchy of the future." He used the term as a...
Are we in the twilight of scientific age?
Meritocracy in the 21st century is fast becoming the new aristocracy. Envisaged as an ideal to counter inequality, it has become one to create,...
Trump torches India ties, China warms up to India
Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University says that “the US currently doesn’t have a functioning constitutional system.” It is not just a “soft dictatorship” but...
NatCons, neoCons, freeCons, new-Republicans or techno-fascists?
The divisions within America’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) right are deepening by the day. On one side are the far-right nationalists, and on...
Milei’s chainsaw seems to be working for Argentina
Renowned Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges made a shocking observation in 1948, saying that “the Argentine, unlike the Americans of the North and almost...
Gabriel Boric’s odyssey
The visit of Chile’s millennial and leftist President Gabriel Boric Font abroad is no ordinary sojourn. It excites the academia and the media alike...
End of liberal international Order?
The liberal international order may not be dead, but it is dying. Multilateralism too is waning, if not on its last legs. Globalization from...
Latin America’s post-new left is constantly reinventing
When ideas fail, Goethe says, words come in very handy. Words make worlds. However, as Thucydides cautions, in wars, words lose their meaning. We...
Claudia Sheinbaum makes history
The historic victory of Dr Claudia Sheinbaum with a 32 points margin over the combined opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez signifies that Mexico, the world’s...
Is tech industry still a boys’ club?
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Jisha Jacob*
The Nobel Prize, says the 2022 literature laureate Annie Ernaux, is an institution “for men.” She further says...