Archive - Politics Happens

Liberalism: What is it? Where did it go wrong?

Can a socially generous liberalism rebuild itself?

Jan 16 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Donald Trump's Pax Americana

And the hypocrisy of Great Power politics

Jan 12 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Shift Right: What's Driving It?

Austria is the case in point at the moment

Jan 8 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Political Leaders and Leadership

What qualities will define great leaders in an age that welcomes disruption?

Jan 5 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Centre-left governments fall like dominoes. Welcome to 2025

What might it all mean for NZ Labour ahead of the 2026 election?

Jan 1 •

Grant Duncan PhD

December 2024

Political leadership & Human agency

Two podcasts, and some predictions for 2025.

Dec 20, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Should universities have to adopt free speech statements?

Do we learn more by hearing and debating, or by suppressing, ideas that some consider "harmful"?

Dec 19, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Nicola Willis's fiscal poetry contest

Calling all creative writing graduates.

Dec 18, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

And Macron's French Farce, Act III

Dec 15, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Political Trust and Democracy

What do we mean by political trust? Is there a problem with it?

Dec 12, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

The media and political opinion

Is freedom of the press under threat? Are social media doing better?

Dec 10, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

Authoritarianism: what is it?

Do democracy and dictatorship shake hands sometimes?

Dec 8, 2024 •

Grant Duncan PhD

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