"You don’t have to be a globalist to want other countries to stop sucking away your tax base"
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An update on episodes 3 [https://borderline.ghost.io/episode-03-what-globalists-should-learn-from-nationalists-with-hassan-damluji/] & 32 [https://borderline.ghost.io/episode-32-hassan-damluji/] with Hassan Damluji I asked Hassan Damluji, deputy director for the Middle East at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of The Responsible Globalist, for some updated thoughts on two topics
032 | Hassan Damluji | The century-long project to build a global nation
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What would it take to create on a planetary level the same fuzzy feelings people have for their country? Let’s start with taxes… If globalists want to build a more united world, they need to look at how nation-states did it – at a smaller scale – in the last couple
029 | Tania Cernuschi | Vaccine nationalism is winning
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More than half of Covid-19 vaccines administered so far have been in high-income countries, which account for just 15% of the world population. Four out of five doses are purchased outside COVAX, the UN-backed procurement scheme that had attempted to set up fair and equal access for all countries. The
025 | Valerie Hansen | The year 1000, when globalization began
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A millenium ago, the Vikings landed in Canada, Islam spread in China and Southeast Asia was already the world’s factory. Welcome to the first globalization. Globalization isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonization and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie
Forget Columbus. Globalization began a lot sooner than you think
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Vikings, Mayas and the ancient Chinese were already bringing the world closer together in the year 1000. Episode 25 with Dr Valerie Hansen.
022 | Ian Dunt | Liberalism is in a fight for its life
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If there is one political philosophy that allows our global lives to exist, it’s liberalism. There is no freedom of movement without freedom. There is no belonging to multiple tribes if the individual does not supersede the collective. There is no room for our weird, compound identities if we’
Liberalism is in a fight for its life
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Episode 22 with Ian Dunt, British political journalist
019 | Peter Gumbel | Citizens of everywhere, a legacy of WWII
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When they narrowly escaped the Third Reich and found refuge in Britain, Peter Gumbel’s parents and grandparents cast off their German Jewish heritage to become a perfectly British family. Two generations later, deeply unsettled by Brexit, Gumbel reaches out to Germany again in search of a new passport – and
