BY JAKE
The state of civil unrest in Iran and how many of us have been responding to it has got me rather bothered. On several occasions, I’ve been accused of “polarising the issue” or making hot-headed judgments about the situation when I don’t have a real understanding of the political climate in Iran.
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Iran: oversimplifying the issues or supporting the demand for civil political rights?
Liberalism as a threat to democracy
UCT student Graham Robert Pote argues that society has become less and less concerned with Liberty, Freedom and Fraternity and overly concerned with only the sense of “I”. Will this, he asks, ultimately lead to the failure of liberal democracy altogether?
