No News Is Bad News: Media Freedom in the Philippines
This article is part of a broader week-long series on free speech. Check here for other components of the series. On November 11th, reporter Virgilio Maganes became the 18th victim More
Getting the Insight Out
This article is part of a broader week-long series on free speech. Check here for other components of the series. On November 11th, reporter Virgilio Maganes became the 18th victim More
This article is part of a broader week-long series on free speech. Check here for other components of the series. Japan, home to one of the world’s leading economies and a More
Discourse, or the process by which ideas are conveyed, is often understood to be a top-down process. As Michel Foucault famously argued, discourse functions as an instrument for elites to More
This article is part of a broader week-long series on free speech. Check here for other components of the series. On October 12, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be More
In August 2020, a group of protestors toppled and destroyed a statue of John A. Macdonald located in downtown Montreal. Canada’s first prime minister is memorialized in statues across the More
The physical representation of narratives through monuments has been an integral part of establishing shared memory, seemingly since the dawn of society. Nevertheless, monuments and memorials are not value-neutral. There More
This article is part of a broader week-long MJPS Online series on free speech. Check here for other components of the series. To many reading this article, free speech is not something More
A leading argument in favour of a liberal democratic state’s right to restrict immigration is its right to self-determination. This refers to the right “to determine its own destiny” with More
The Ethiopian government warned that they will launch a “final” military offensive against the recalcitrant Tigray rebel forces, a move threatening to bring Ethiopia to the brink of civil war. More
November 9th, 2020 marks the 700th day since Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China. Kovrig, a former diplomat for the International Crisis Group, and Spavor, a businessman More