On December 14, South Korea’s National Assembly successfully impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol on its second attempt. The impeachment has headed to the Constitutional Court, which has up to six months to review it. On Friday, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo who had assumed the role of acting president was also impeached. If Yoon’s impeachment is upheld, … Read more
The struggle against climate change is, fundamentally, also a struggle for justice. For one, climate law has been a focal point for articulating redistributive demands — ranging from calls for additional climate financing via demands for technology transfer, all the way to reparations and what is called ‘loss and damage’. For another, the objective of … Read more
As with many things in life these days, it all started with an episode of the Peter Attia podcast. In this edition, our nation’s most Badass Doctor was interviewing a guest I initially dismissed as not overly applicable to my own lifestyle. A young,excessively handsome dude who happened to be a writer with a new … Read more
We live in an age where crises seem to be everywhere. But what do we mean by a “crisis”? Miguel de Beistegui examines how we make sense of crises and explains why we should be cautious about the idea that crisis has become the general, permanent state of the world. Following the collapse of the … Read more
In 1993, a constitutional disaster in Russia led to troops storming the Russian parliament constructing and a brand new structure that strengthened Boris Yeltsin’s maintain on energy. Jeff Hawn argues that previous to the disaster, Russia was on track to turning into a real democratic state. The final decade of the twentieth century in some … Read more
