A Defense for the US Electoral College
Say what thou wilt about the United States Electoral College: you may call it undemocratic, blame it for its seeming lack of legitimacy in relation to the will of the majority by deeming popular vote as the supreme decisive factor, and you can also take your angst out on the streets and demand for its... Read More
Student Guide to the Romanian Parliamentary Elections
So you’re a student at faculty X and you’ve heard there’s an election coming up. As you, the average student, pride yourself in not watching TV or having any knowledge about the dreaded Romanian (or any) political stage, we’ve decided to sum up the parties and programs put before the ever-wise Romanian electoral masses in... Read More
Keeping up with Romania’s neighbors
Whilst the world was arduously discussing Western politics, elections were held in two of Romania’s neighboring countries, namely Bulgaria and Moldova. In the eve of Parliamentary elections, Romania witnesses gradual shifts in political orientation in Eastern Europe. Here is an informal overview on the political realities of the recent elections in two of Romania’s neighboring... Read More
Westworld, the TV series you should be watching
Westworld, because you don’t need to watch journalists complaining about Trump 24/7. This TV show is guaranteed to have you question artificial intelligence, human nature and the idea of moral decay/sin. One month ago, HBO introduced us to the world of Dolores and the Man in Black in what is a sci-fi drama on artificially... Read More
The Conservative Working Class
Modern democracy has drifted far from the average individual. The best example is probably the EU, a supra-state construct that functions through an unending number of bodies, branches, committees and institutions, discouraging people from even trying to grasp its drives and methods. Thus the easy task of Brexiters to vilify Brussels and cause British citizens... Read More
PSD is Romania’s GOP
I’ll make the bold statement from the first line of this article: Romania’s Social Democratic Party (from now on, PSD) is not a leftist political group, but a very conservative hegemon with rather neoliberal and nationalistic tendencies. Regardless of the official written ideology and the day-to-day spoken rhetoric, there is very little about the party... Read More
Experiencing Racism Through Mafia III
Video games, as a form of interactive digital entertainment, can be excellent tools for immersing players in experiences that closely emulate real-life events and situations. Very good examples include the early Call of Duty games (the first three reenact scenes from World War II), Civilization (which, as a simulator of government, can allow players to... Read More
How American Politics Are at Fault for Donald Trump
I’ll start with the assumption that everyone reading this knows who Trump is, the fact that he’s participating in the USA’s presidential election and that he has a habit of outrageous claims, continuing conspiracy theories such incumbent president Obama’s birth certificate being false (recently dropped) or being plain discriminatory in proposed policies (promising... Read More
Polish anti-abortion laws and why such a scenario is far-fetched from happening in Romania
In case you missed the news, there was a lot of controversy in Poland related to the newest legislative proposal which the Parliament was discussing, namely the anti-abortion law. The existing legislation on abortion is already quite hard to suck in for Polish women. In fact, the most restrictive EU countries on abortion are Ireland,... Read More
Refugees of the parallax
“Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.” ― Slavoj Žižek It’s quite commonplace to say that if one looks at the same thing from different perspectives ,one will get will be a different picture . It is as mundane to justify differences in the... Read More