ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The debates over the future of social democracy since the 1980s have raised a mixture of issues and problems. These issues are crucial in understanding the development of a third way approach to politics. Anthony Giddens regards the third way as (in part) a response to five key dilemmas, they are all crucial in understanding …
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his championing of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), his refining of Gottlob Frege’s predicate calculus (which still forms …
There are some necessary conditions on causal relations that seem to be so trivial that they do not merit further inquiry. Many philosophers assume that the requirement that there could be no temporal gaps between causes and their effects is such a condition. Bertrand Russell disagrees. In this paper, an in-depth discussion of Russell’s argument …
The U.S.-China relationship is on a downward trajectory. Neither side agrees on the diagnosis of problems or remedies, and domestic political trends in both countries limit the likelihood of improved relations anytime soon. Read more
After several decades of increasing global economic integration, the world is facing the risk of policy-driven geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF). This note explores the ramifications. It identifies multiple channels through which the benefits of globalization were earlier transmitted, and along which, conversely, the costs of GEF are likely to fall, including trade, migration, capital flows, technology …
There are many ways to define prosperity. For some, it is all about money in the bank; for others, it is about health, spiritual well-being, or happiness. But because humans are animals, all of these definitions in the end come down to the same thing: energy flows. Unless we each consume about two thousand kilocalories …
The future is not what it used to be. Can the Conservative Party adapt to confront the challenges that the country now faces? It has done it before. The party claims—with some justification—to be the longest-serving party of government the world has known, going back to Pitt the Younger in 1783. Despite the British Isles …
Since the British Labour Party’s shattering defeat in last week’s general election, many people, myself included, have been thinking through its implications for the left, and especially for the Democrats’ prospects in 2020. But what did the result mean for the right? In an essay published shortly before the election, Gerard Baker, the Wall Street Journal’s editor-at-large, said that, if Boris Johnson’s “new national …
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We are citizens of Western nations who have watched with alarm as the traditional beliefs, institutions, and liberties underpinning life in the countries we love have been progressively undermined and overthrown. Read more