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# Top Ten on openDemocracy - Editors’ choice
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/top-ten-on-opendemocracy-editors-choice/
- Published: 2011-05-12T11:05:54.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:11:47.000Z
- Description: openDemocracy editors choose a first draft of the best of a decade
- Author: Rosemary Bechler
- Tags: openDemocracy's tenth anniversary, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:11

[**Can a machine change your mind?** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/can-a-machine-change-your-mind)[Jane O'Grady](http://author/jane-ogrady?ref=opendemocracy.net), 25 May 2009

The mind is not the brain. Confusing the two leads to a dehumanized world and a controlling politics

[**Andrei Loshak: Kafka’s Castle is collapsing** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/andrei-loshak/kafka%E2%80%99s-castle-is-collapsing)[Andrei Loshak](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/andrei-loshak), 19 March 2010

You can’t reason with the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a model business in Russia

[**Landscape and identity in a globalised world** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/ecology-landscape/article%5F414.jsp)[Roger Scruton](http://author/roger-scruton?ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Ken Worpole](http://author/ken-worpole?ref=opendemocracy.net), 5 June 2002

How is globalisation changing our sense of place, essential to people’s ability to find meaning in the world?

[**The Left and the Jihad** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/left%5Fjihad%5F3886.jsp)[Fred Halliday](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/fred-halliday), 6 April 2011

The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?  

[**The World’s Fair** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-world/article%5F950.jsp)[Susan Richards](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/susan-richards), 5 February 2003

A new world is also a new way of seeing. For Susan Richards, it all came together at Porto Alegre. 

[**Hooligans of the Absolute** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-globaljustice/article%5F155.jsp)[Tom Nairn](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/tom-nairn), 4 October 2001

The impulse of the attacks was not confidence but despair – the strike of a miserable old world against the unsettling but promising new.

[**Do women and girls have human rights?** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-institutions%5Fgovernment/girls%5Frights%5F4386.jsp)[Pinar Ilkkaracan](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/pinar-ilkkaracan), 26 February 2007

The CSW at the United Nations has become a vehicle of global political interests rather than a body to advance women's human rights

[**Diary of an Uzbek gastarbeiter**](http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/diary-of-an-uzbek-gastarbeiter)  
[Mumin Shakirov](http://www.opendemocracy.net/authors/mumin-shakirov), 18 March 2009

Once a physics teacher in Uzbekistan, Shukhrat works as a builder to keep his family alive. He has been robbed, cheated, almost burned to death

[**Love and change** ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision%5Freflections/love%5F3149.jsp)[Michael Edwards](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/michael-edwards), 22 December 2005

The foundation of a healthy civil society is a marriage of two human faculties often undervalued or misunderstood: reason and love.

[**The strands of today**](http://www.opendemocracy.net/tony-curzon-price/us-power-wikileaks-student-protest-christopher-hitchens-and-opendemocracy-under-at)   
[Tony Curzon Price](http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/tony-curzon-price), 13 December 2010

Authors, authority and authoritarianism. A turbulent week raises the question of truth and legitimacy