by Selena Spencer | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
This piece argues against Francis Fukuyama’s famous piece “The End of History”. In February 1989 at the University of Chicago in room 122 of the Social Science Research Building, Francis Fukuyama gave a speech about the state of international...
by Kennen Sparks | Apr 16, 2019 | Utah State University
The first protest against a fuel tax was on November 16th, 2018—at that time no one could have imagined that it would have ballooned into the largest series of protests in France since the infamous 1968 demonstrations. As of writing, the protest of the gilets...
by Alec Wood | Mar 19, 2019 | American University
On 26 January 2017 Alexander Van der Bellen, former party spokesman and chairman of the Greens, became the 9th president of the Federal Republic of Austria. For many, this was a sign that the political center had held. That when put under pressure, the political...
by Joseph Bodnar | Mar 9, 2019 | American University
General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship attempted to bury Catalan nationalism. After Franco’s death in 1975, Spain attempted to bury Francoism. With Franco’s remains settled in the Valley of the Fallen, a memorial and the largest of the 2,000 Franco-era mass...
by Joseph Bodnar | Feb 6, 2019 | American University
The Yellow Vest protests mark a period of disruption in France’s long, disordered history with liberal democracy. Galvanized behind the symbol of high-visibility jackets, the Yellow Vests mobilized a catch-all consensus against the status quo in France, against the...
