A sultanistic system does not respond to appeals to shared values or long-standing agreements. It responds to leverage, personal relationships with the ruler and transactional incentives.
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The strange alliance between demagogues and despots ought to puzzle and worry every thinking person, and it needs to be understood.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from both, but is stranger than either.
Reclaiming the true meaning of calling can rebuild trust and renew systems from the inside out.
More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.
Throughout modern history, charismatic leaders have shown their extraordinary ability to elicit devotion to themselves and their causes.
Whether you’re a reporter, a teacher or a nurse, it’s becoming more difficult to find meaning in your work.
How can violence be viewed as ethical? Carlo Bordoni’s new book helps us understand why societies go to war and how they justify it.
If the All Blacks again fail to fire against Australia in the first Bledisloe Test, perhaps the game’s administrators should take advice from another group of experts entirely.
We shouldn’t see politicians and scientists as residing in distinct, separate realms.
Churches will remain closed over Easter, but theologians have argued over the centuries that faith itself, not ritual, is the heart and soul of Christianity.
Secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Now new research shows that it was secularisation which came first.
Since the Brexit vote in 2016, rebellious movements have repeatedly shown their ability to shape political outcomes across the globe, often in unexpected ways: So what lies next?
The ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal has generated big headlines, but consumer and marketing research have long questioned the actual effectiveness of psychographic segmentation.
On the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, two scholars explain how Luther’s personal and spiritual life contributed to his success.
Historically, there have been numerous cultural manifestations of austerity that shed light on its enduring appeal.
Whether it’s Hillary Clinton’s courting the UFO vote or Donald Trump’s lending credibility to various conspiracy theories, the “triumph of reason” seems to have gone by the wayside.
There are religious and non-religious extremists and we should not confuse violent believers with religion itself, which has a long history of peacemaking.
A political party that isn’t sure what it stands for isn’t really a party.
Recently released labour force figures have shown a rise in unemployment figures to 5.8% and, with Treasury’s budget update slating a rise to 6.25% by the end of the financial year, the future doesn’t…
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