Citizens or consumers?

It’s time to ask if Republicanism has any meaning in our global, multinational, transnational and international-governance 21st-century world.

It’s time to ask if Republicanism has any meaning in our global, multinational, transnational and international-governance 21st-century world.

Not only are the questions facing such a project truly immense, I don’t think we have even begun to start asking them.

We might begin by asking how, in an Ireland dedicated to the ideology of economic liberalism and ‘free trade’ - and dealing on a daily basis with the transnational power of institutions like ...