ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The U.S.-China relationship is on a downward trajectory. Neither side agrees on the diagnosis of problems or remedies, and domestic political trends in both countries limit the likelihood of improved relations anytime soon. Read more
After several decades of increasing global economic integration, the world is facing the risk of policy-driven geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF). This note explores the ramifications. It identifies multiple channels through which the benefits of globalization were earlier transmitted, and along which, conversely, the costs of GEF are likely to fall, including trade, migration, capital flows, technology …
There are many ways to define prosperity. For some, it is all about money in the bank; for others, it is about health, spiritual well-being, or happiness. But because humans are animals, all of these definitions in the end come down to the same thing: energy flows. Unless we each consume about two thousand kilocalories …
The future is not what it used to be. Can the Conservative Party adapt to confront the challenges that the country now faces? It has done it before. The party claims—with some justification—to be the longest-serving party of government the world has known, going back to Pitt the Younger in 1783. Despite the British Isles …
Since the British Labour Party’s shattering defeat in last week’s general election, many people, myself included, have been thinking through its implications for the left, and especially for the Democrats’ prospects in 2020. But what did the result mean for the right? In an essay published shortly before the election, Gerard Baker, the Wall Street Journal’s editor-at-large, said that, if Boris Johnson’s “new national …
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We are citizens of Western nations who have watched with alarm as the traditional beliefs, institutions, and liberties underpinning life in the countries we love have been progressively undermined and overthrown. Read more
Thank you for inviting me to the Telos Conference. Unlike most of you, I am not a philosopher. I was trained as a historian. Some of you though may consider that to be, by definition, a failed philosopher. Read more
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute develops new ideas for addressing the challenges of modernity worldwide through the resources of particular communities and traditions. Centered around a unique international group of scholars and practitioners, the Institute combines critical analyses of issues of modernity with a sense for alternative approaches in order to create innovative policy ideas. At …
We speak with journalist Lynzy Billing, whose investigation for ProPublica details how CIA-backed death squads, known as Zero Units, have yet to be held accountable for killing hundreds of civilians during the U.S. War in Afghanistan. The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by U.S. soldiers, became feared throughout rural Afghanistan for their brutal night …