In the 5th century BCE, Athens experienced a radical transformation in governance. The city's elite gathered in the Athenian Assembly to discuss and, most importantly, vote on civic matters. This has come to be known as democracy and has evolved into today’s dominant political system.
Yet, inadvertently, the Greeks also discovered the concept of echo…
Opinion
Are you doing enough?
Are you doing enough to build your career?
Are you investing enough time in friends and family, work and uni?
Push yourself, do more than what’s expected of you, go above and beyond everyone else. Get ahead. But don’t overdo it. Relax and take time for yourself, journal and meditate, but…
I pride myself on being a relatively informed individual. Whether my yearning for political knowledge has been instilled in me from my Politics degree or the need to keep up with my politically informed friends, I have always believed that staying updated with the global decisions that greatly impact our lives is vital.
However, while…
‘Ummm yeah, I can’t believe he posted that. He’s cancelled.’
Shaped by the rise in digital activism and online political organisation over the past decade, our present post-pandemic political sphere is characterised by the convergence of wokeism, left-wing politics, and a push for change and freedom of speech. This amalgamation has given rise to a…
Over the past decade, China has been increasing its influence and presence across the Pacific. The Pacific Islands are strategically significant in terms of their location for international trade, security bases, and resource distribution. Thus, the Pacific is naturally an area which major powers, such as the US, China and Australia, would seek closer ties…
Let me introduce you to Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Published by psychologist Howard Gardner in 1983, ‘Frames of Mind’ is a detailed investigation into the concept of intelligence, in which Gardner puts forth his theory that human intelligence can be differentiated into the following modalities: logical-mathematical, linguistics, musical, spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. …
Around 380 BC, Plato wrote the Gorgias, a fictional dialogue between Socrates and a group of sophists at a dinner party. The work follows the principle of Plato’s other dialogues: the group debates amongst themselves about the true nature of political rhetoric through the Socratic method. Both Socrates and Plato believed earnestly in the intellectual…
When it comes to dating, do you have a type?
Most of us have a preference, but have you ever stopped to think why you're attracted to certain people and not others?
And whether underlying that attraction, or lack thereof, lurks some kind of prejudice?
Millions of people tune in every year to watch Love…
True crime is everywhere. Turn on the TV, pick a podcast, or go on social media, and you’ll find it. Of course, there is good reason for this - we all love true crime. I’ll admit it, I’m an addict, and binge-watched Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a 10-part Netflix series looking into the life…
Zoe Edgerley reflects on 20 years of undergraduate women at St Andrew’s College
This past week the Republican controlled Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. This heartbreaking action reverses the decision in 1973 that made abortion legal and recognised a woman’s constitutional right to abortion under the fourteenth amendment, the right to privacy. In 1973…