ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The Warnings in Cold War History (John Lewis Gaddis) Netflix viewers got an introduction, this spring, to a famous physics experiment: the three-body problem. A magnetized pendulum suspended above two fixed magnets will swing between them predictably. A third magnet, however, randomizes the motion, not because the laws of physics have been repealed, but because …
Retrenchment Would Do More Harm Than Good (Megan A. Stewart, Jonathan B. Petkun, and Mara R. Revkin) After more than 20 years of costly military adventures, the United States has failed to root out extremism or bring liberal democracy to the oppressed. Thousands of American soldiers have lost their lives in the failed wars in …
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Last fall, out of public view, the North Carolina Supreme Court squashed disciplinary action against two Republican judges who had admitted that they had violated …
The young Ethiopian entrepreneur, Ezedin Kamil. Watch the Video
In The Claremont Review of Books winter 2023/24 issue, the magazine’s editor Charles Kesler published “National Conservatism vs. American Conservatism.” Siding with American conservatism, Kesler offered a respectful critique of National Conservatism, a transnational movement that embraces citizens of several Western nations, many of whom Kesler counts as friends and colleagues. CRB’s spring 2024 issue followed up …
On June 17, 1972, five burglars were arrested during a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. According to news reports of the time, the men wore surgical gloves, carried a walkie-talkie and short-wave police scanner, 40 rolls of unexposed film and $2,300 in crisp $100 bills. They also …
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon shut down efforts by Republicans to get involved in former President Donald Trump‘s case involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents. On Monday, Cannon rejected a motion from 24 Republican attorneys general across the nation that sought to have the court avoid granting Special Counsel Jack Smith a gag order against Trump. “PAPERLESS ORDER denying 623 Motion for …
This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State. This book is the product of …
First published Wed Feb 24, 2010; substantive revision Wed Sep 21, 2022 The Greek word skepsis means investigation. Literally, a “skeptic” is an inquirer. Not all ancient philosophers whom in retrospect we call “skeptics” refer to themselves as such. Nevertheless, they all embrace ways of life that are devoted to inquiry. Ancient skepticism is as much concerned …
A concise presentation of Spinoza’s philosophy. Watch the Video