The Malaysian ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) seems to have managed to remain in power after today’s general elections, having at least passed the mark of the 112 necessary seats necessa...
http://polemarchus.net/2013/05/05/malaysian-ruling-coalition-remains-in-power/
Yes, I know. Malaysia isn’t an Arabic country, and the current Malaysian regime is far from the former regimes of Libya and Egypt. Nevertheless, today’s general election in this Muslim majori...
http://polemarchus.net/2013/05/05/an-arab-spring-for-malaysia/
Through the Twitter account of Gudmund Hernes, I became aware of a very interesting and thought provoking piece by Alexander Stille, based on the work of French economist Thomas Piketty. Titled �...
http://polemarchus.net/2012/08/26/slow-growth-creates-inequality-or-the-other-way-around/
Norwegian newspapers today report the following: A month after the terror at Oslo and Utøya, a group of researchers from the University of Bergen repeated three of the survey questions they aske...
So, Osama bin Laden is dead. The most hated man in the western hemisphere has been brought down. Justice is served. Or is it? If we take a step back from the thrill of the moment and examine the ...
http://polemarchus.net/2011/05/02/we-killed-the-bastard-lets-party/
After a long and arduous process, the work on my master’s thesis is finally nearing the end. Here is a slightly adapted version of the introduction, and a link to the print ready version (P...
http://polemarchus.net/2010/11/07/deliberating-or-quarreling-final-draft-of-my-thesis/
The Wall street Journal today published a joint editorial by Al Gore and Paul Wolfowitz ((Hidden behind paywall at WSJ, so I’m linking to Lim Kit Siang’s publication of the entire piece)) ...
http://polemarchus.net/2010/08/04/gore-and-wolfowitz-on-anwar-trial/
Were the Jedi knights enemies of liberty? The political philosophy of the Jedi is explored by both Reason‘s Jesse Kline and Dan Drezner of Foreign Policy in recent blog posts. Kline claims that...
http://polemarchus.net/2010/07/27/the-jedi-and-free-trade-the-political-economy-of-star-wars/
Malaysia has a parliament and elections, but it is nowehere near being a working democracy. This week they have once again proven this with the censorship of MP and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahi...
http://polemarchus.net/2010/04/24/on-parliamentary-censorship-malaysia-and-jew-connection/
The Norwegian weekly newspaper Morgenbladet brings a thought-provoking piece this week by professor Hans Petter Graver, dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. In a recent book by n...