David Haldane

The world is undergoing significant multi-polarization, spanning economic, political, and social interactions between all nations. This transformation is driven by concerns about the weaponization of global access to commerce, communications, networks, and other entities by home countries, restricting use by disagreeing nations. Unipolarity seems no longer fit for purpose. While multipolarity provides developing countries with alternatives, its downsides are still undergoing scrutiny.

The recent death sentence given to the man who murdered 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 highlights a subset of questions about the death penalty: Whether there are some crimes that are so awful, so heinous, that they rise above any usual opposition to capital punishment and require retributive killing as the only proper response from society. There are times, I admit, when opposition to the death penalty is … challenging, let us say.

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