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Workers' raw deal
Postbag, Published on 27/11/2024
» Re: "Govt gets tips to run economy", (BP, Nov 25).
Section 112 is untouchable
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/11/2024
» Re: "Section 112 won't fix itself", (Editorial, Nov 7).
Will humans survive the next 100 years?
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 24/08/2024
» In May, experts from many fields gathered in Montenegro to discuss "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them." The term "existential risk" was popularised in a 2002 essay by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who defined it as referring to risks such that "an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life, or permanently and drastically curtail its potential".
Economics, at its core, is irredeemably sexist
Oped, Yanis Varoufakis, Published on 05/04/2024
» Economics has an intractable "women problem". High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And the problem runs deeper than the difficulty of attracting enough women to mathematics, science, and engineering. Even women who have reached the discipline's summit, like Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, consider economists "a tribal clique" and their models defective.
When do we die? Disputing the definition of death
Oped, Peter Singer & Charles Camosy, Published on 14/11/2023
» 'What is it you don't understand? She's dead, dead, dead." That is how David Durand, Chief Medical Officer of Oakland's Children's Hospital, attempted to convince the family of Jahi McMath that the standard medical tests for brain death had shown that their teenage daughter was no longer alive.
Handout pros
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/04/2023
» Re: "Pheu Thai's giveaway might just work", (Opinion, April 20).
Fair competition
News, Published on 14/11/2022
» Re: "Grab enlisted to ease airport taxi woes," (BP, 12 Nov).
Wolfman cometh
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/01/2022
» Re: "New narrative needed on getting rich", (Opinion, Jan 17). Paritta Wankiat is obviously being quite provocative with her emphasis that we need to create equal opportunity distribution in Thailand to ensure that the irreverent corrupt forces which become rich can somehow be stymied and Thailand can emerge as a land of free and equal.
Democracy is default mode of civilisations
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/07/2021
» At first I was going to write about the "Arab Problem", because there is not a single functioning democracy in the Arab world. This week's presidential coup in Tunisia has probably ended democracy in the one country that actually achieved it during the "Arab Spring" of 2010-11.
The dice are loaded
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/03/2021
» Re: "Sinking of bill bodes ill," (Editorial, March 19). "The sinking of the bill came as no surprise". It's testament to the determined work done during five years of dictatorship when they aligned all the institutions in their favour and then bought up corrupt politicians to join them.