What are the prospects for world peace? Zero. At least according to Chicago professor of Political Science, John J. Mearsheimer. In his Tragedy of Great Power Politics, Mearsheimer argues that great powers are engaged in competition with one another to become the global hegemon – the world’s most powerful state – and since no state […]
What is Russia after in Crimea and Syria? The sea
“A great leader who has an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has two.” – attributed to Peter the Great At first glance, Crimea and Syria seem to have little in common. Aside from both being the sites of intense contemporary conflict, one is a peninsula in Eastern Europe torn between pro- […]
“Castro was no hero” – a student’s view
“Fidel Castro was a foul tyrant and his brother Raul is no better. Free Western media outlets ought to have said so right at the top of their news reports, instead of admitting it towards the end like some uncomfortable detail.” – Andrew Roberts “I regret that this criminal never faced a tribunal for all the […]
Trump’s Won It
Donald J. Trump is now the President Elect of the United States of America, having secured 276 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton’s 218. He will be the 45th President of the United States. Very few expected this result. The national polls put Clinton comfortably ahead of Trump. Clinton was meant to win in swing states […]
Are academics safe at Exeter?
On the evening of 24th October Dr Yaron Brook, the American-Israeli entrepreneur and director of the Ayn Rand Institute, was scheduled to deliver a talk entitled ‘Free Speech and the Survival of Western Culture’ in the Peter Chalk Centre. Before Dr Brook even had a chance to speak students supporting Palestine took turns to stage protests […]
Obituary: In Memory of Shimon Peres
”When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn’t think about, that doesn’t exist.” – Shimon Peres If you follow the news you are more likely than not to have heard of the recent death of Shimon Peres, who died from a fatal […]
Brexit apocalypse? What apocalypse?
ItI’s been over 100 days since the historic vote of the UK to leave the EU on June 23. In the frenzied weeks running up to the referendum numerous prophecies of doom – yes, the term is appropriate – were made. Have any materialized? We were warned by the then Chancellor, George Osborne, that in the […]
Anti-Prejudice March
As a First Year student I have been at Exeter now for two weeks and have settled into the university very quickly. However, I was disappointed with the ‘anti-prejudice march’ held in the Forum on 26th September. Much to my alarm, an event that was supposed to be about condemning prejudice and, specifically, condemning anti-Semitism […]