The Death Penalty should be abolished
An argument dissecting the logical inconsistencies and moral costs of the death penalty, focusing on the "rarest of rare" threshold and the fallibility of human institutions.
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The Price of Principle - Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara’s brief presidency in Burkina Faso remains a powerful study in the conflict between political survival and unyielding moral conviction.
The Nordic Model
Free markets, but also generous safety nets. Booming innovation, but with near-crippling tax burdens. More billionaires per capita than Lady Capitalism herself, but some of the most generous paid-leave provisions on the planet. At first glance, the economic models that the Nordic countries have established for themselves seem paradoxical, and yet, they work.