ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
(Dr Bret Weinstein, the Diary of a CEO) Dr Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist and former professor at Evergreen State College. He is the co-host of the podcast, ‘DarkHorse’, and the author of the book, ‘A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life’. Watch the Interview
Since Plato’s Republic 2,300 years ago, philosophers have understood the process by which demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and establish tyrannical rule. The process is straightforward, and we have now just watched it play out. NEW YORK – Like others, since late Tuesday night, my phone has …
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Paris climate agreement, rescinded emissions-reduction targets, and ended climate-related initiatives. But a range of potential initiatives that are consistent with the Trump administration’s priorities could still slow climate change. NEW YORK – There is no denying the reality of global …
History and social science research show that voters take their cues from elites. When politicians who are seen as mainstream treat an extremist far-right party as normal, public opinion will tend to follow; and once such normalization has happened, as in Europe today, it is virtually impossible to undo. FRANKFURT – With only a few …
The well-known images of East Germans eagerly pouring into West Berlin onthe night of November 9, 1989, have become symbols of the beginning of theend of the Cold War and, more specifically, evidence of the failure ofCommunist rule in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany)and its socialist economic system. Yet that historic moment …
Since 1949, following the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Europe’s political leadership, with striking exceptions, have assumed that the American commitment to its defence was unequivocal. Admittedly, Charles de Gaulle, the French president, did not wholly share this view and even withdrew French military personnel from its integrated military command in 1966. …
Trump’s demand for tariffs threatens a decades-long trend favoring economic freedom. When I was a full-time economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, I always taught my master’s students about comparative advantage. I showed them that if two people were on a desert island and discovered each other, they could each have more by specializing …
Senior Fellow Paola Sapienza is co-director of the J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration. Here she discusses research into the economic benefits of immigration, how migration fosters prosperity, and what is lost in the current immigration debate in the United States. Chris Herhalt: It’s no accident that the J-P Conte Immigration Initiative has been placed under the new Hoover Prosperity Program. What …
Given the pace of AI development, policymakers and civil society must step in now to ensure that the next general-purpose technology serves the public interest. Otherwise, already dominant monopolists will supercharge the socially harmful digital business models they perfected over the past decade. LONDON – This month’s AI Action Summit in Paris comes at a …
On the current trajectory, the Global North will continue to dominate AI and develop new forms of economic and cultural dependency. But with investment in distributed computing and grassroots innovation, low- and middle-income countries can establish a fairer technological order that creates value for their communities. NAIROBI – Artificial intelligence is reshaping global power dynamics, …