Vol.37, No.1: Jan-Mar 2021
We can (still) stave off the Four Horsemen
Recent media reports have referred to the ‘apocalyptic’ effects of global warming. Moreover, almost all countries have fallen behind in their Paris Agreement goals, as Craig Smith and William Fletcher note in Are we Facing Climate Apocalypse?
Above: Hurricane Sally hits Pensacola, Florida. Photo courtesy of the Boston Globe, September 2020.
Also in this issue
Who votes for demagogues, and why? asks Metta Spencer in People Love their Dictators. ‘Character’ includes moral traits such as generosity, fairness, and compassion, which put the interests of others ahead of one’s own. But such altruistic motives are not learned early.
Of Nigeria’s poor, 80% live in the country’s northern region, where Islam is politicized by the government. Yusur Al-Bahrani examines how Nigeria’s northerners have been ‘caught between the jaws of Boko Haram and the state’, in Sharia Courts in Nigeria Cover Corruption.
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Updated 04 January 2021