Bruce Gilley
Bruce Gilley is professor of political science at Portland State University. @BruceGilley3
Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
Bring back blasphemy laws
Free speech is all very well, but that’s no excuse for being RUDE
How to fight jihadism
Rakib’s Britain: Sunak’s idea is rubbish but there is still much to do
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
The West’s self-defeating sanctions
America and its allies are committing geo-political suicide for no discernible gain
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
The Caribbean in the twentieth century
Jeremy Black discusses how have the nations of the Caribbean have adapted to modern times