Perspectives
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Digital globalization: The New Era of Global Flows
James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Woetzel, Kalin Stamenov, and Dhruv Dhingra, McKinsey & Co.
February, 2016
Conventional wisdom says that globalization has stalled. But although the global goods trade has flattened and cross-border capital flows have declined sharply since 2008, globalization is not heading into reverse. Rather, it is entering a new phase defined by soaring flows of data and information.
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By 2050, There will be More Plastic than Fish in the World’s Oceans, Study Says
Sarah Kaplan
January 20, 2016
There is a lot of plastic in the world’s oceans.
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Scientists Debate Boundaries, Ethics of Human Gene Editing
Lauran Neergaard
December 1, 2015
Rewriting your DNA is getting closer to reality: A revolutionary technology is opening new frontiers for genetic engineering--a promise of cures for intractable diseases along with anxiety about designer babies.
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Pope Francis says ‘Jesus Weeps’ over Piecemeal World War
Inés San Martín
November 19, 2015
As major global powers debate how to take the fight to ISIS in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, Pope Francis on Thursday said that “the whole world is at war,” adding that Jesus weeps “because we have chosen the way of war, the way of hatred.”
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Globally, Religious Persecution is Christian Persecution
John L. Allen Jr.
December 13, 2015
If there were a Nobel Prize for enduring misery, Nabil Soliman would be an awfully compelling candidate.
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The Pitfalls and Pioneers Of Transhumanism
Dominique Nora
August 15, 2015
Remember Gattaca? The superb film describes the contrasting fates of two brothers, one of whom was genetically optimized at birth. A few years later, in another movie, The Island, a community of prisoners discovers one day they are nothing but clones of super-privileged people and that their sole purpose is to provide fresh organs as a guarantee of immortality.