Pinochet in the car, 1982 celebrating the 8th anniversary of the coup. His dictatorship in Chile was both a step forwards for neoliberalism and a step back for democracy and human rights.
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Forefather of contemporary neoliberalism or violent dictator – Pinochet’s complicated legacy in Chile and the world.
Self-help leaders can convince us that we have the responsibility to improve our lives. But this can ignore the realities of social inequities. Tony Robbins, motivational speaker, personal finance instructor and self-help author on ‘Wall Street Week’ in 2016.
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Self-help books can help us get through difficult times by telling us we have the agency to take control. But this method can also ignore structural inequities and negatively influence public policy.
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Stop telling women they can have it all if they just work hard enough.
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon holds a news conference with National Front party leader Marine Le Pen in the northern French city of Lille in March 2018.
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Fears about the resurgence of fascism might have seemed irrelevant during the past 70 years, when it was discredited. It doesn’t seem irrelevant today with liberal democracy on the defensive.
The HECS system is a hybrid policy approach that ensures Australian universities remain accessible while funding remains sustainable.
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From the 20th-century process of policy trial and error, the nations that married the strengths of markets and government came out ahead.
South Africa’s Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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South Africa’s governance challenge can’t simply be fixed by reorganising the structure of government.
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Central Asia is at the centre of two new initiatives by China and Russia that run against a longstanding economic vision of the US.
Giving a TED talk and/or tweeting are becoming expected parts of an up-and-coming digital professor’s job.
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Young professors are challenged to engage in public outreach using digital technologies, without becoming mouthpieces for corporate elites.
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Ken Starkey defends the importance of business schools, while Martin Parker says ‘bring in the bulldozers’.
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There’s a lot that Richard Denniss gets right. Neoliberalism clearly has an array of problems. But he risks throwing out what is good about liberalism in attacking neoliberalism.
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Markets have mobilised feminism to advance political goals and add value.
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As companies and governments attempt to intensify extraction, cultural resistance offers a space for imagining alternative futures.
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Emmanuel Macron is driving through his neoliberal agenda by relying on French police forces renowned for their violence against ethnic minority citizens, protestors and migrants.
The free speech wars rage on but there is an essential difference between free speech and hate speech. Words shape the way we think about the world.
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Most Canadians are more than happy to support free speech, believing it to be the foundation of democracy. But for speech to be free it must be aligned to freedom itself.
Queer Eye has made some strides. In this new version, the producers have addressed broader issues of gender, race, religion and politics than before. However, the show as before, showcases consumerism as the way to a better life.
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The new Queer Eye has viewers hooked on its emotional ride through men’s lives, aiming to embrace diversity and counter toxic masculinity. Yet its focus on consumerism threatens its lofty ideals.
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It is no accident that practices of meditation and mindfulness have become so ubiquitous in our neoliberal times.
Cyril Ramaphosa addresses MPs after being elected president of South Africa.
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Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.
Women’s work?
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Dubbed the ‘female ghetto’, there’s a reason why women are significantly over-represented in call centres.
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Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?
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There is enormous pressure on young people to strive, perform and achieve. And the data indicate that many are struggling to cope.