Getting the Insight Out
In December 2025, Canada quietly crossed a line few anticipated. It became the first non-European state to integrate the European Union’s one hundred and fifty billion euros Security Action for More
Financial nationalism is a form of economic nationalism where a state uses fiscal and monetary policy as instruments to further nationalist goals of unity, identity, and autonomy. Financial nationalists have to balance the pursuit of nationalist policy goals in areas such as citizenship and security with monetary and fiscal structures that are inherently international.
Ph. D candidate Godesulloh Bawa’s Youtube miniseries explores the shape of African philosophy readily intersected with politics through the examination of the language that structures epistemology. In saying “hunting difference is not the aim of philosophy,” Godesulloh raises deeper questions about the political outcomes of unquestioned epistemology. What thought processes are utilized, and what do they hide when employed? What is privileged by demarcating units of analysis like ‘Africa’ and ‘Europe’ and what do these distinctions imply for the practice of political theory?
An article by Anyue Zhang that interprets the battle over immigration through the lens of political theorist Ernesto Laclau. By understanding political struggles as hegemonic operations—efforts to fix the meaning of an idea itself—we can become more conscious of what really unites a movement, and in turn, what delineates it from others.
The policy’s greatest utility may lie beyond its stated goals.
Beyond these security vulnerabilities, the potential for personal financial gain creates a moral risk: the gamification of human suffering. In the comments of the market, users note the latest information on Palestinian injuries and deaths, often lamenting that these attacks were not counted in the market.
Mark Carney’s 2026 Davos speech unsettled established expectations about Canada’s place in the international system, abandoning the language of rules-based international order and reframing how the country positions itself on a global scale. However, this event brings about a familiar question in Canadian foreign policy: can rhetorical honesty produce genuine change, or will it simply renew the practice of performative sovereignty?
On the Nur movement in Post-Ottoman Turkey and its representation of a lesser-known nuance of Islamic political activism in the modern Middle East.
This article interrogates the concept of meritocracy through its etymological evolution from dystopic prophecy to political buzzword. Mainstream iterations of meritocracy and the so-called “merit principle” assume its moral goodness, yet the term(s) are far more complicated than they are traditionally represented. This article argues against Pierre Polievre’s assertion that DEI has somehow displaced the Canadian merit principle by nuancing meritocracy and problematizing the implied claim that Canada has a history of fair opportunity. (A companion piece to last month’s analysis of ‘DEI-bureaucracy’ and its practical implementation in Canada).
An article that explores what
Venezuela’s political landscape may look like in the
wake of Nicolas Maduro’s removal. Following the
placement of Delcy Rodríquez as Venezuela’s interim
president by the U.S., will the repression present under
Maduro’s leadership continue, or will opposition parties
take this as an opportunity to expand their roles?