 | Jason Walsh is a foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor newspaper in Boston. Previously he was the newspaper’s Ireland correspondent and he has contributed to other publications including The Independent, City AM and the Irish Times among others, and is a correspondent of the Vox Pop investigative news magazine on Franco-German television station Arte. He is completing a PhD in philosophy at University College Dublin. |
Urban hubris and the great inequality debate
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