Flashpoints, Ideologies, Networks, Rights

Some current events and influential United States political scientists.

A. Why Australia needs its artists.

B. The think tanks and networks that gave us neoliberalism.

C. Why Minneapolis has become a domestic flashpoint in the United States.

D. Why Iran’s current regime is still likely to survive and persist.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is an Introduction to Art History created by Associate Professor Kristel Smentek.

F. The late Kenneth Waltz explains in this interview how theory-building works; why he moved from economics to international relations; how political philosophy helps you to better understand the values and worldviews of others; and why the Iraq War (2003) was likely to fail given Saddam Hussein’s psychology. The Lowy Interpreter has a 2013 euology and career overview of Waltz’s achievements and legacy.

G. Francis Fukuyama on the international system after Davos. You can read Fukuyama’s famous and influential National Interest essay The End of History?

H. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabasis on the current AI investment bubble.

BlackRock’s Larry Fink rejects that there is an AI investment bubble.

I. Historian Timothy Snyder speaks in Brussels about freedom’s responsibilities.