What Was Said (And What Was Not Said)

• Analysis
• March 19, 2025

Double Truths: When Fiction Reveals What Academia Cannot

• Analysis
• March 17, 2025

After years working in the World Bank’s Result Measurement Unit, I found myself confronting an uncomfortable reality: development aid to impoverished countries primarily benefits aid facilitators, donors, and a select few wealthy clients—rarely empowering those it’s meant to help on the ground. Paraphrasing Voltaire, other countries have banks, but the World Bank as an institution

Thinking Critically About Science Diplomacy: What Does It Mean To Give Scientists A ‘Seat At The Table’?

• Analysis
• March 11, 2025

A recent editorial in Nature endorses an expert report on science diplomacy prepared for the European Commission that recommends that “science move closer to the centre of EU policymaking”. The expert report goes on to argue that scientists must “become more visible and be at the core rather than at the fringe” of policy making. The editorial uses

Canada Must Dream Big and Spend Big as it Faces the Trump Threat

• Analysis
• March 10, 2025

It should now be clear to Canadians that we face an existential threat from a United States that has gone full MAGA. In response, Canada must go full GIGA! Giga, of course, means “giant” in Greek, and that’s the size of the effort needed to protect Canada. Canada’s giant response to the MAGA threat means that we