Convenient fictions reassure our society. ‘Twill explores these socio-political conventions to offer a fresh perspective on the truisms of academic analysis.
Democracy was the subject of #13, Economics of #14 and Justice, another fiction, is the theme of #15.
As Myrdal once argued (Objectivity in Social Research 1969), researchers should state explicitly their value judgements and inclinations, for clarity of interpretation and to disclose potential biases.