Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Author: Hugh Pope
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What will Europe standing on its own two feet really mean?
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A review of “The Hundred Years War on Palestine: a History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance”, by Rashid Khalidi We talk a lot about the “news”. It’s a shame there is not a better supply of something we might call “olds”. Because when the world gets confused by a storm of what looks like…
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A second anniversary celebration of the modest but unexpected success of my late father’s posthumous book, The Keys to Democracy.
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Review by Hugh Pope of Andrew Finkel’s excellent debut novel The Adventure of the Second Wife: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Sultan.
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If better representation brings better government, then random selection has more potential to do the job.
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Belgian industrialist Luc Bertrand outlines the challenges undermining government in Belgium and Europe. In particular, he outlines the failure of electoral democracy. But Belgium is also a pioneer in new ways of making public decisions more efficiently.
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An account of what Google’s artificial intelligence machine NotebookLM told me when I asked what use my book Dining with al-Qaeda might be in helping outsiders to understand current events in the Middle East.
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The cutting-edge podcasters shows beyond doubt that our system of election-based, representative government is broken. But – while flirting with good alternatives like deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies – they fall short in telling us what they think might fix the mess.
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Lessons learned from a week of deliberative democracy and citizens’ assembly events in British Columbia, Canada.
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CEO Nick Grono gives his recipe for success in nonprofit leadership and common pitfalls to avoid.
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