ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The ongoing protests against Israel––from its defense policies and warfighting tactics, to its very existence as a nation and a people––have featured levels of irrational hatred and despicable endorsements of genocidal terrorists. The U.S., of course, is also a target not just for being Israel’s enabler, but for alleged historical crimes like “settler colonialism,” racism, …
Today’s episode is a recording of a debate that occurred a few weeks ago between me and Jamelle Bouie, who is a columnist for the New York Times. This debate was hosted by TED as well as Open to Debate, formerly known as Intelligence Squared. The motion was, “Does Color-Blindness Perpetuate Racism?” Jamelle took the …
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Aconcerning report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services from 2019 said that one million plant and animal species worldwide are threatened with extinction. The organization said the decline of nature is happening at a rate “unprecedented in human history,” with invasive species, global heating, and pollution all said to be responsible for this …
Leviathan rigorously argues that civil peace and social unity are best achieved by the establishment of a commonwealth through social contract. Hobbes’s ideal commonwealth is ruled by a sovereign power responsible for protecting the security of the commonwealth and granted absolute authority to ensure the common defense. In his introduction, Hobbes describes this commonwealth as an …
Authorship: All four Gospels in the New Testament—the Greek word for gospel is euangelion, which literally means “good news”—were written anonymously, despite their ascribed authorship (“the gospel according to…”). In the second and third centuries, Christians began to associate the authorship of these anonymously written gospels with particular figures in the early Christian movement. While …
Since 1972, the Iowa Caucus had been the first—and some argue most important—electoral test on the road to each party’s presidential nomination. That changed for the Democrats when the party voted in February 2023 to reorder its 2024 presidential primary, replacing Iowa with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a major shake-up meant to empower …
I What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, the …