Category Archives: Miscellaneous

I thoroughly enjoyed the mock election that we have been working on in class. We tried to be a “Orsinian Fascist” party, after realizing the implications of labelling ourselves as neo-fascists (haha). We called ourselves the “Orsinia Forward” party to … Continue reading →

What an interesting few weeks it has been for me.  Not only were we doing a mock election in class, but it was also elections season at UBC.  Throughout the past few weeks, I kept on thinking about how the … Continue reading →

Daniel’s delivered a really interesting talk on the impeachment of Trump last week. It explored the possibility of Trump being taken out of office and all the different ways in which previous presidents were removed. There are lots of laws … Continue reading →

Like all of Boothe’s texts so far, I found this one really informative and pretty comprehensible. I appreciated that he is really upfront about his limitations (he states very clearly that he is only qualified to speak with (some) authority … Continue reading →

Welcome to the class blog for ASTU 400T – 2018. This is a Student Directed Seminar. We will be posting blog responses, articles, links to texts and videos, and more!