ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The second Trump administration has finally awoken the world to the existential dangers posed by America’s unilateralist presidency, which itself evolved over the course of many decades of legal theorizing and political paradigm shifts. The question now is what to do about it. NEW HAVEN – Americans have long trumpeted the checks and balances that …
Trump is a godsend for Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and the other technofeudal lords. Any short-run loss from his tariff delusions is a small price to pay for an agenda that would deregulate their AI-driven services, bolster crypto, and exempting their cloud rents from taxation. ATHENS – Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly …
The foreign policy of Donald Trump’s second administration is and will remain more unilateralist than isolationist. Less clear is whether Trump will move to reduce tariffs imposed on friends and foes alike, rethink his pro-Russian stance on Ukraine, and press Israel to modify its approach to Gaza and the West Bank. NEW YORK – We …
While the Trump administration is entitled to reorganize the bureaucracy within the parameters of the law, its indiscriminate gutting of national-security agencies contradicts 2,000 years of great powers using defense, deterrence, and diplomacy to manage foreign threats. Americans are owed an explanation. LONDON – In 1933, when US President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to normalize …
It is difficult to win wars that seek exceedingly tall objectives. Wars seeking total victory over the enemy, demanding his unconditional surrender and a leadership or regime change, are an example. The gap between required means and desired goals becomes so large that the war turns into an unsatisfactory endless slog: the objective is always …
The surest way to lose a war is to refuse to recognize that you’re in one. The United States at the moment is doing exactly that, ignoring reality. The People’s Republic of China is at war with an oblivious, unprepared America. Beijing is not trying to hide how it characterizes Sino-U.S. relations. In May 2019, People’s Daily, …
Given its position as the world’s greatest superpower since World War II, it is an enigma that the U.S. lost wars against decidedly inferior enemies in Vietnam and Afghanistan and struggled mightily to achieve very little in Iraq despite massive investments (blood and treasure) for nearly a decade. Certainly, there were a number of factors …
Indispensable tools and growing risks as nations reach for the skies. This excerpt from the latest issue of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) focuses on space, one of ten key technologies studied in this continuing educational initiative. SETR, a project of the Hoover Institution and the Stanford School of Engineering, harnesses the expertise of Stanford University’s leading science …
After two years of destructive fighting, Sudan’s civil war has reached an uneasy stalemate. Since the beginning of 2025, the Sudanese Armed Forces and allied militias have made significant gains against the Rapid Support Forces, the powerful militia accused of genocide, as the two factions vie for control of the country. By late March, the …
Very good idea about the current societal problem and suggestion to change course. I will explain using political philosophy why and how in my future presentation series. Watch the Video here.