A little over a year ago, on March 9, 2015, a student protestor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) threw his own feces at a statue. Without context, this act seems a little ridiculous. However, this was not an ...
Correspondent Steve Helmeci wrote an interesting and critical piece on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Glimpse this year. The thrust of Helmeci’s argument is this: Hillary Clinton expounds an “outdated and dangerous” strategic ideology, which he refers to as ...
Not only known as the leader of the most populous country in the world, President Xi is also affectionately called “Daddy Xi”, with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sanctioned rap videos containing brilliant lyrics about his effectiveness as China’s top leader. ...
Towering above the famous — or infamous, depending on your perspective — Mansu Hill Grand Monument in Pyongyang, North Korea stand two massive statues. Looming 22 meters high, the bronze incarnates of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il express gleeful smiles, ...
In the face of a rising Eurosceptic movement, the European Commission defended its political solidarity when it launched an unprecedented inquiry of Poland’s newly elected Law and Justice Party (PiS) on January 15, 2016. The investigation follows the Commission’s 2014 ...
Evita is everywhere. Her iconic 20th century portrait stares back from postcards, magnets and other memorabilia sold in kiosks lining the most tourist-laden streets of Buenos Aires. But whether remembered with nostalgic affection or bitter eye-rolls, the populist legacy of ...
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a free-trade agreement, yet to be signed, that goes far beyond simply lowering tariffs. It establishes an almost definitive market union between the US and the EU. The agreement will indeed tear ...
In their song “Punk Prayer”, anti-Putin feminist group Pussy Riot criticizes the use of Russian Orthodox to deify the political regime: Bless our festering bastard boss, Let black cars parade the Cross, The Missionary’s in class for cash, Meet him ...
This piece is the third of Glimpse’s “Regional Check-In Series.” To read about Latin America, click here. To read about the Caucasus and Central Asia, click here. With a population of 600 million and a total GDP of $1.9 trillion, South ...
As late as the 1870s only 10% of the African Continent was colonized. Less than 30 years later, the “Scramble for Africa” had rendered 90% of the continent under the control of European powers. This race to conquer the continent ...