Simon Grassmann is a researcher in immunology and cancer and a member of Democratic Socialists of America in New York City.
Over the past few decades, scientists have been making fewer and fewer innovative breakthroughs. The blame lies with academia’s increasingly competitive, metrics-driven model, which discourages creativity and risk-taking.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that scientific advances come from individual geniuses making breakthrough discoveries. That’s wrong.
Support for a multiparty system is widespread in the United States. Such a system is crucial to ridding this country of the two-party trap and building a real democratic system. That’s why socialists should support proportional representation in our electoral system.