Banking Tradition and the Spirit of Cryptocurrency Adoption
When Max Weber wrote “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, he basically started from a simple empirical inquiry: why did the industrial emerge in England fueled by Western... Read More
Using agenda setting to create a more mature public. Can we do it?
Disclaimer: One should interpret this article from a political science perspective, as I sometimes pretend to have. The reason I chose this topic is because it has been on the... Read More
Women and politics in 2016
2016 is over and we find ourselves looking back at the moments which made it such an interesting year. Wishing to grasp the events and to understand the facts as... Read More
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James Madison on the Internet: General Will, Factionalism, and the Utopian Wide Web
1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Swiss-born philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau is best known for his theory on the social contract and a citizen-focused perspective on governance that has helped lay the foundations... Read More
Polybius on the Internet: Checks and Balances
This article is a part of a series in which classical philosophers and political thinkers are hypothetically faced with the magnum opus of the Information Age, The Almighty Internet. The... Read More
Internet Privacy: Why it matters, Corporate and Governmental Interventions, and the International Law
The internet is, without a doubt, one of the most groundbreaking technological innovations of 20th century: an invention that follows the international trend of globalization and political uniformization, and a... Read More