Tag: Donald Trump

Andrés Manuel López Obrador: A Mexican Donald Trump?

July 1, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Mexico is set to vote in left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador in its election on Sunday, who has been likened to Donald Trump by some observers. Mexico’s federal elections, scheduled for July 1, comes at an important moment for the nation. The incumbent Industrial Revolution Party (PRI) are struggling in the polls and are […] Read more

Book Review: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

March 9, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Michael Wolff’s explosive book on the Trump administration, while an entertaining read, is dubious in terms of its factual veracity. Michael Wolff’s fly-on-the-wall account of the Trump White House’s first months in office, Fire and Fury, is already one of 2018’s best-selling and most controversial books. While its contents have been questioned and vociferously denied […] Read more

Trump, Corbyn, and the Trouble with Condemning ‘Both Sides’

August 16, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
Donald Trump’s equal condemnation of violence on ‘both sides’ following the protests in Charlottesville  highlight the inadequacy of such denunciation. Similar considerations apply to Jeremy Corbyn, who generically condemned ‘violence’ by ‘both sides’ in Venezuela, failing to distinguish between the government and opposition. If there is an asymmetry in wrongdoing, power, or the wrongness of […] Read more