gabrielblancDec 31, 20217 minYuri 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...
gabrielblancDec 6, 20215 minChild Labor is a Feature of our Capitalist SystemThis article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Incredible image by Kai Gietzen. In the face of a “labor shortage” that...
gabrielblancDec 4, 20213 minHow 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...
gabrielblancNov 22, 20215 minWhat is a Green Party?This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Image from Wikimedia Commons (Midnightblueowl). “The principal defect of...
gabrielblancOct 31, 20214 minCanada: 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...
gabrielblancApr 28, 20213 minThe Unempathetic ProgressiveNew York Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Last Wednesday, New York Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang came under...
gabrielblancApr 16, 20215 minThe 2022 French Presidential Election is a Test of the First-past-the-post SystemThis article first appeared in the Brown Political Review. Graphic by Amy Lim. The two leading candidates for France’s 2022 presidential...
gabrielblancMar 17, 20214 minKeystone, the Commons, and Energy IndependenceThis article first appeared in the Brown Political Review. Image from Alex on Adobe Stock. Among the flurry of executive orders signed by...
gabrielblancMar 12, 20214 minResponses to Social StarvationOne 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...
gabrielblancMar 4, 20214 minBill Gates doesn't have much to add on climate changeHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster is Bill Gates' first foray into climate policy, and deserves scrutiny. I have not read Bill Gates' new...
gabrielblancFeb 5, 20213 minMaurice Duverger v. Lebron JamesEvery year, it seems like the NBA fields a new and seemingly unbeatable combination of talents. Chronologically, they include: The Boston...
gabrielblancJan 30, 20213 minOp-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...
gabrielblancJan 15, 20215 minAmerican institutions failedI'm tired of hearing people praise "America's institutions." It seems that American democracy has survived President Trump, at least for...
gabrielblancJan 13, 20215 minDavid Frum and "X but not Y" biasIf, like me, you started paying attention to politics less than four years ago, you'd think David Frum was a classic never-Trump...
gabrielblancJan 2, 20215 minStuck in the middle without UBIThis article was originally published in the Brown Political Review. It was written in the Fall, and touches on all sorts of things I've...
gabrielblancDec 30, 20205 minAntisemitism as a day-to-day experienceDespite being a Jew for over nineteen years, it took me until my sophomore year of college to understand that antisemitism was a...
gabrielblancDec 9, 20203 minTrudeau's broken promise playbookPhoto courtesy of CTV News. A few weeks ago, the Liberal government announced that it was giving up on its promise to end boil-water...
gabrielblancDec 1, 20207 minElectoral Reform for CanadaPhoto 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...
gabrielblancNov 28, 20206 minDuverger says it can happen here tooIf Americans have learned one thing over the past four years, it's that they shouldn't feel too comfortable with the phrase "it could...
gabrielblancNov 19, 20206 minElectoral reform is for losersLike my post about "Canada's 'blue wave'" this is an expansion on something I touch on in an article I recently wrote for the Brown...