ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan are part of an unstable frontier—and require a more principled U.S. strategy. In 2017, we wrote a book arguing that the United States faced simultaneous tests from Russia, China, and Iran. We argued that these tests, or “probes,” were occurring at the outer perimeter of U.S. power—the “unquiet frontier,” as we …
For decades, American colleges and universities have desperately needed reform. The urgency of the moment may create openings to mitigate the damage and restore the basic elements of liberal education. Over the last few months, turmoil on campus has provoked outrage among wealthy donors, members of Congress, parents of college and college-bound students, and no …
Are we unable to imagine defeat? You might have thought that, having so recently lost a small war, Americans would have no difficulty picturing the consequences of losing a large one. But the humiliating abandonment of Afghanistan in 2021 has been consigned with remarkable swiftness to the collective memory hole. Presumably a similar process would …
Memorial for the Battle of Adwa. Watch the Video
Great document for discerning the role of chaos phenomena in any process including functions of living things. Watch the Video
For John Dewey, there was nothing as important as education, not only on an individual level but also on the societal. He was a champion of democracy and longed to see it thrive, but for this to occur he knew that we must first take the necessary steps to build an educational system that allowed …
Louis Menand is one of the more trenchant observers of the forces that shape higher education in the United States. A professor of English at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, Menand won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in history for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. [Note: Louis outlines …
This guy is guiding how to interpret history. The problem is he relies on Marxist-Leninist orientation limiting wrongly history-making only to production relationships. The fact is that history is a result of societies’ struggle to survive and thrive by adapting and integrating with environmental challenges. Thus production relationships are just one part of society’s wholesome …
The military situation in the Middle East is obscured by the fog of war. Added to the Israeli attacks on Hamas after October 7 is the rising threat of further conflict from the aggressive actions in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, close to the part of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthis, who have also extended the general …
One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered the previous morning by Palestinians while …