What is Metamodernism? (The Living Philosophy)
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Metamodernism 101: What Does ‘Metamodern’ Mean?
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Collected Works of Milton Friedman (Hoover Institution)
The Collected Works of Milton Friedman website contains more than 1,500 digital items by and about economist, Nobel Prize winner, and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman. The site features hundreds of Friedman’s articles, speeches, lectures, television appearances, and more. Explore this vast collection by clicking one of the options below or by entering keywords into the …
Israel’s Next War: The Mounting Pressure to Fight Hezbollah in Lebanon – And Why that is So Dangerous (Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs)
More than nine months into its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel now appears closer than ever to a second, even larger war with Hezbollah on its northern border. In June, the Israel Defense Forces announced that plans for a full-scale attack in southern Lebanon had been approved. And in mid-July, Hezbollah leader …
America’s Dilemma in Kenya: Washington Erred in Embracing Ruto – but Now Must Double Down on Helping him Succeed (Michelle Gavin, Foreign Affairs)
In June, Kenyans took to the streets to oppose government proposals to hike taxes. In doing so, they were also airing their bitter disappointment with President William Ruto, who swept into power two years ago after a tight electoral victory. Ruto had promised to lower the cost of living and increase job opportunities for young …
The End of South Asia
A Region in Name Only (Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs) For decades, policymakers and scholars have been trained in the West and elsewhere to think of the countries of the Indian subcontinent as part of a coherent region: South Asia. Home to around a quarter of the world’s population, the region consists of eight countries: Afghanistan, …
The Rising Tide of Political Violence:
An Attempted Assassination of Trump Is Part of a Global Trend (Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs) It is commonplace for Americans to assume that their country’s problems are sui generis. Since the July 13 assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump, many commentators have portrayed the event and the tensions around it as unprecedented. Others …
Liberalism,Old Style (Milton Friedman)
Liberalism, as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies and flowered in the nineteenth, puts major emphasis onthe freedom of individuals to control their own destinies. Individualism is its creed; collectivism and tyranny its enemy. Thestate exists to protect individuals from coercion by other individuals or groups and to widen the range within which individualscan …
Restoring Confidence in American Elections (Bruce E. Cain and Benjamin Ginsberg)
INTRODUCTIONIdeally, voting rules and processes in mature democracies should be stable over timeand instill high public confidence in the outcomes of elections. That is not the case in theUnited States currently. The electoral features embedded in the federal Constitution havestability, but they are under unprecedented stress in the highly polarized United States oftoday. State and …
America’s Democratic Dysfunction (Kelly Born, Project Syndicate)
Americans’ mistrust in elections and distrust of each other are symptomatic of deep-seated cultural, structural, and institutional problems. Until these are resolved, the crisis of American democracy will persist, and voters will continue to demand new kinds of solutions – be they democratic, technocratic, or authoritarian. MENLO PARK – For almost 20 years, the world has …