ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
How did mineral evolution shape our planet? Robert Hazen, a renowned mineralogist, shares his fascinating insights into the co-evolution of minerals and life on Earth. Science has shown us that the universe started with a mere few dozen minerals, and those have since evolved into thousands. This discovery has proven that evolution does not only …
Practical reason is the employment of reason in service of living a good life, and the great medieval thinkers all gave accounts of it. Practical reason is reasoning about, or better toward, an action, and an action always has a goal or end, this end being understood to be in some sense good. The medievals …
Peter Boettke discusses liberalism, the social sciences, and other topics from his recent book, “The Struggle for a Better World.” He describes liberalism as an emancipation project. From the publisher: In “The Struggle for a Better World,” Peter J. Boettke explores how the social sciences, and political economy in particular, help us understand society and …
In December 2021, IHS hosted a discussion with Robert B. Talisse on his recent book “Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side.” Talisse, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, has conducted extensive research on the forces that divide us politically and discursively. The conversation fed off material from his first book “Overdoing Democracy: …
Scientists created a maze-like fractal inspired by the movements of chess pieces. The ultra-difficult maze could help to improve our understanding of bizarre quasicrystals. An image of the researchers’ fractal maze. (Image credit: The University of Bristol) Physicists may have created the world’s most difficult maze using a chess sequence, and it could help them understand …
America’s constitutional republic finds itself in an inevitable decline, or so some would say. Political polarization, institutional distrust, and economic uncertainty threaten to fray America’s societal fabric. Decline is only inevitable, however, if we choose it. A recommitment to civic education, dedication to a common good over unilateral perfection, and civic bargaining, Americans can ensure …
America’s so-called “left behind” counties — the once-great manufacturing centers and other distressed places that struggled mightily at the start of this century — have staged a remarkable comeback. In the last three years, they added jobs and new businesses at their fastest pace since Bill Clinton was president. The turnaround has shocked experts. “This …
Lately I have written a great deal about metamodernism which is the overall philosophical school of thought this blog and my books are devoted to. I have introduced the notion of the metamodern aristocracy, proposed what’s going to be the meta-ideology of metamodern society, showed how we have progressed from pre-modern to metamodern thinking throughout history, and in …
The Listening Society (2017) and Nordic Ideology (2019) by “Hanzi Freinacht” The argument underpinning The Listening Society is that many of us are “living in our ancestors’ utopia.” We have abundant food, comfortable homes, modern healthcare, voting rights, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion. The (fictitious) author, “Hanzi Freinacht,” invites us to appreciate our “relative utopia;” learn from how …
Solomon was a medical doctor in a town in West Gojjam Zone in Ethiopia’s northwesternAmhara region when armed conflict broke out in August 2023 between the Ethiopianfederal government and an Amhara militia known as Fano.Like many other medical professionals working in towns experiencing heavy fighting, hefocused on treating all categories of patients, including those wounded …