AP Post AP Seminar Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:40:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 What’s gone wrong with democracy? https://daniellazar.com/2014/03/16/whats-gone-wrong-with-democracy/ Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:41:49 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4889 Faith in democracy flares up in moments of triumph, such as the overthrow of unpopular regimes in Cairo or Kiev, only to sputter out once again. Outside the West, democracy often advances only to collapse. And within the West, democracy has too often become associated with debt and dysfunction at home and overreach abroad. Democracy … Continue reading What’s gone wrong with democracy? →

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]]> The Comparative Constitutions Project https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/the-comparative-constitutions-project/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:20:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4729 You can now read, search, and compare 160 constitutions from around the world thanks to Constitute, a website launched by Google on Monday. The site, developed by the Comparative Constitutions Project, with seed funding by Google Ideas, has digitized the constitutions of 160 countries, making them fully searchable. A user can browse the constitutions using nearly 350 … Continue reading The Comparative Constitutions Project →

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]]> Switzerland Mulls Giving Every Citizen $2,800 a Month https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/switzerland-mulls-giving-every-citizen-2800-a-month/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:47:46 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4716 Switzerland has a very direct style of democracy. For example, changes to the constitution, or “popular initiatives,” can be proposed by members of the public and are voted on if more than 100,000 people sign them. If a majority of voters and cantons (Swiss states) agree, the change can become law. This system not only … Continue reading Switzerland Mulls Giving Every Citizen $2,800 a Month →

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]]> The Global Slavery Index https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/the-global-slavery-index/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:46:15 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4714 The Global Slavery Index provides a ranking of 162 countries, reflecting a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. The measure is heavily weighted to reflect the first factor, prevalence. A number one … Continue reading The Global Slavery Index →

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]]> Lecture: Structural-Functional Analysis of EU https://daniellazar.com/2013/04/19/lecture-structural-functional-analysis-of-eu/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:55:03 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4416 History & Evolution Structures-Functions Contemporary Challenges Discussion Here is the lecture

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]]> Why Women Still Can’t Have It All https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/28/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all-2/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:56:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4265 It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.

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]]> You Say You Want a Devolution? https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/you-say-you-want-a-devolution/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:15:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3441 For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new.

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]]> Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/small-change-why-the-revolution-will-not-be-tweeted/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:13:40 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3435 Social media can’t provide what social change has always required. (Gladwell from New Yorker)

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]]> 21st Century Slavery https://daniellazar.com/2011/11/13/21st-century-slavery/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:47:29 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2827 Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his investigation will expose the brutal reality of modern slavery and … Continue reading 21st Century Slavery →

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]]> RSA Animate – Crises of Capitalism https://daniellazar.com/2011/09/18/rsa-animate-crises-of-capitalism/ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:09:19 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2726 In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?

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