Essay: Global voter turnout has been in decline since the 1960s – we wanted to find out why
FILIP KOSTELKA and ANDRÉ BLAIS investigate, in an article published on The Conversation, the reasons for declining election turnouts around the world…
Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy – Cambridge study
London, UKReuters Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found. Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996, are more disillusioned than Generation X, those born between […]
ESSAY: THE GREAT AMERICAN SLUMBERING?
In an article first published in Sightings, WILLIAM SCHWEIKER, Edward L Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, asks whether the US is experiencing the opposite of a ‘Great Awakening’…
ESSAY: UNDERSTANDING THE ‘GRETA EFFECT’
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, looks at the impact of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and her position at the forefront of what he calls ‘Generation Edge’…
THIS LIFE: FAITH ACROSS THE GENERATIONS
ELISABETH CARTER writes about how “something so wonderful” happens when Christians of different ages come together…
ESSAY: MILLENNIALS KEEP THEIR VIRGINITY LONGER
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER reflects on the findings of a survey showing British millennials were less sexually active than preceding generations…