ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Berhanu Anteneh In the face of existential threats like climate change, we have a responsibility to improve our decision-making radically. Since cooperation has always been humanity’s superpower, the first step must be to rebuild a global culture of cooperation, underpinned by a shared, fact-based understanding of reality and trust in institutions. Read More
With unified Republican control of the White House and Congress, US President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pursue radical economic policies. By undermining the independence of the Federal Reserve, enacting massive tax cuts, and loosening cryptocurrency regulations, he risks triggering an inflationary surge. Read More
The situation in Ukraine is becoming increasingly absurd. While American isolationists and the media treat Ukraine’s use of longer-range missiles against Russia as a dangerous escalation, Russia’s fresh wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure is treated as par for the course. Read More
It is often said that a businessman like Donald Trump or Elon Musk will know how to put America’s fiscal house in order. But between Trump’s planned tax cuts and Musk’s absurd estimate of how much federal spending can be reduced, the smart money says they have no idea what they are doing. Cambridge: When …
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Ryan Johnson, associate professor of philosophy, traces the influence of German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel in the work of American philosophers in “Three American Hegels.” Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy Ryan Johnson published his seventh book this fall, an exploration of three seminal American philosophers who shaped national thought by incorporating the …
As part of the “Archaeology of Food” module that I am currently teaching at UCD School of Archaeology, the class recently attempted to grind whole cereal grains into flour, using both ancient and modern saddle-shaped quern stones. Although it was quite a lengthy process, we were successful, producing a relatively fine flour from both wheat and …
When historians write about President Biden and his administration, the president’s response to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 will be the most significant chapter in the foreign policy section. We already know how that chapter starts; we don’t know how it ends. Biden still has several weeks to make pivotal decisions that …
Since 2018, American defense analysts have repeatedly identified China as the greatest threat to U.S. national security. They have variously described Beijing as a “systemic challenge,” a “pacing threat,” and even a “peer adversary,” owing to China’s massive military buildup, belligerent behavior in the Asia-Pacific, and global campaign of economic coercion. These vague, buzzy phrases …