Theory of Knowledge: Knowledge and Politics

An AP article that looks at how different interpretations of words can lead to different outcomes of meaning - and how our political affiliations drive this.

A Guardian article, which considers whether you need to speak a country’s language in order to fully understand its politics, culture, and history.

A CBS article and selection of videos considering why some European countries have suspended the roll-out of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine.

An FT article by Yuval Noah Harari, in which he discusses what we can learn about the world from our collective response to the Covid crisis.

A Conversation article, considering the work of Nawal El Saadawi, a writer, physician, and activist who had a huge influence on the way we think.

A CNN article, which looks at how Joe Biden referred to events in Tulsa 100 years ago as a massacre - not a riot.

A Vox article, examining the reports that the US and other Western governments are treating accusations that Covid began in a lab increasingly seriously.

An AP article, looking at the split in the Catholic Church over whether President Biden should be denied the Eucharist because of his government’s support for abortion.

A Conversation article, looking at how punctuation has been adapted as a central tool of Black activism.

A Big Think article, looking at the Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map, which arranges nations according to their values and religious outlooks.

A Guardian article, looking at how a microbiologist was trolled after raising concerns about a paper that claimed hydroxychloroquine was effective in treating Covid-19.

A Conversation article, looking at how our judgement of when life begins is as much a matter of politics as it is about science.

A History Today article, in which four historians offer their thoughts on the question, ‘What is history?’

A Conversation article, which looks at a film about indigenous stories about the night sky, and how they help us to comprehend the universe.

A CNN article, looking at how world leaders are apt to rewrite history in order to consolidate their own positions.

An Aeon essay, looking at six different narratives of the nature and effect of globalization.

A Guardian video, considering why conspiracy theories are so attractive to us as an explanation of how the world functions.