No More Majorities
Posters for La France Insoumise in France's 2022 Legislative Elections. Image from France24. On June 19th, French citizens went to the...
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gabrielblanc
- Jun 7
- 5 min
In Defense of Mandatory Voting
Photo from the Globe and Mail In the wake of an election with 43 per cent voter turnout — the lowest in Ontario's history — pundits and...
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gabrielblanc
- Dec 31, 2021
- 7 min
Yuri Slezkine and the Many "Ends of History"
Gabriel Boric, Joe Biden, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Collage made with Canva. The House of Government is a self-described "saga of the...
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gabrielblanc
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
Child Labor is a Feature of our Capitalist System
This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Incredible image by Kai Gietzen. In the face of a “labor shortage” that...
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gabrielblanc
- Dec 4, 2021
- 3 min
How Universities Manipulate the "College Experience"
The Sharpe Refectory at Brown University. Image from Wikimedia commons. At the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester, Brown University...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 22, 2021
- 5 min
What is a Green Party?
This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Image from Wikimedia Commons (Midnightblueowl). “The principal defect of...
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gabrielblanc
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
Canada: A Democracy in Decline?
This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Image from Dennis Jarvis on Flickr. Although Canada’s recent federal...
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gabrielblanc
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
The Unempathetic Progressive
New York Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Last Wednesday, New York Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang came under...
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gabrielblanc
- Apr 16, 2021
- 5 min
The 2022 French Presidential Election is a Test of the First-past-the-post System
This article first appeared in the Brown Political Review. Graphic by Amy Lim. The two leading candidates for France’s 2022 presidential...
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gabrielblanc
- Mar 16, 2021
- 4 min
Keystone, the Commons, and Energy Independence
This article first appeared in the Brown Political Review. Image from Alex on Adobe Stock. Among the flurry of executive orders signed by...
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gabrielblanc
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Responses to Social Starvation
One year ago today, the university I attend told its students that we would not be finishing the semester on campus. The play that I had...
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gabrielblanc
- Mar 4, 2021
- 4 min
Bill Gates doesn't have much to add on climate change
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is Bill Gates' first foray into climate policy, and deserves scrutiny. I have not read Bill Gates' new...
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gabrielblanc
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Maurice Duverger v. Lebron James
Every year, it seems like the NBA fields a new and seemingly unbeatable combination of talents. Chronologically, they include: The Boston...
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gabrielblanc
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Op-ed: Covid-19 is a public health issue, not a national security issue (duh?)
Image from the National Post. I wrote this a while ago in response to this op-ed by Andrew Potter. Slightly less relevant now, it's still...
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gabrielblanc
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
American institutions failed
I'm tired of hearing people praise "America's institutions." It seems that American democracy has survived President Trump, at least for...
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gabrielblanc
- Jan 13, 2021
- 5 min
David Frum and "X but not Y" bias
If, like me, you started paying attention to politics less than four years ago, you'd think David Frum was a classic never-Trump...
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gabrielblanc
- Jan 2, 2021
- 5 min
Stuck in the middle without UBI
This article was originally published in the Brown Political Review. It was written in the Fall, and touches on all sorts of things I've...
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gabrielblanc
- Dec 30, 2020
- 5 min
Antisemitism as a day-to-day experience
Despite being a Jew for over nineteen years, it took me until my sophomore year of college to understand that antisemitism was a...
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gabrielblanc
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Trudeau's broken promise playbook
Photo courtesy of CTV News. A few weeks ago, the Liberal government announced that it was giving up on its promise to end boil-water...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 30, 2020
- 7 min
Electoral Reform for Canada
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.com. I've written a fair bit about electoral reform on this blog, so here is a list of some ideas for...
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