ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
This question has been in the news recently, in light of the recent House Committee hearings on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.” A few thoughts on my part: [1.] There’s no “advocacy of genocide” exception to the First Amendment, or to the contractual promises of student free speech that many private universities rightly …
On December 7, 1941, a surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shocked America. These are the stories of veterans who were at the naval base that morning. Just before eight o’clock on a Sunday morning in December 7, 1941, a Japanese plane appeared in the skies over Pearl Harbor, signalling the beginning of the devastating surprise …
Nearly everyone has experiences that contradict the children’s rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Words can be painful. And that is particularly true in the age of social media, when a viral tweet or insensitive post can hurt feelings and damage reputations. Despite this reality, the United …
Left-wing intellectuals have transformed the complex history of “colonialism” into an all-encompassing slander against the West. A practice dating back to the ancient world, colonialism involves a nation’s transferring a portion of its population into a foreign land and assuming responsibility for administering it. In the United Kingdom and the United States, professors of literature, …
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/ The idea of the social contract goes back at least to Protagoras and Epicurus. In its recognizably modern form, however, the idea is revived by Thomas Hobbes and was later developed, in different ways, by John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant. After Kant, the idea fell out of favor with political philosophers until …
The U.S. Department of State manages America’s relationships with foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries. The management of all of these relationships is called diplomacy. State Department diplomats carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a more free, prosperous, and secure world. The State Department is a vital part …
What if we had a new cold war — and we were the Soviets? That was the question I found myself asking during this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the highlight of which was the long-anticipated meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden at Woodside, California, south of San Francisco. My question …
The Hoover Institution’s new Center for Revitalizing American Institutions explores the crisis in trust facing American institutions and find solutions. The Center hosts its inaugural conference November 30 and December 1 at Stanford University, featuring a conversation among Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D), New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R), and Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice. In this preview, the …
Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) – The Hoover Institution’s newly established Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) has released its inaugural essay series in anticipation of the center’s upcoming public launch this week. The essay series, Legitimacy of Administrative Law, was prepared for a conference held in January, which was chaired and spearheaded by senior fellow and legal scholar Jack Goldsmith. The series investigates the …
The War in Gaza Will Likely Reinforce the Country’s Rightward Tilt (Dahlia Scheindlin) Almost from the moment Hamas broke through Israel’s security barrier with the Gaza Strip on October 7 and began its rampage, it felt as if Israel would never be the same. Within hours, Israelis were forced to confront the reality that many …