The Philosophy Of Baruch Spinoza (Let’s Talk Philosophy)
A concise presentation of Spinoza’s philosophy. Watch the Video
Human Rights
OHCHR update on the human rights situation in Ethiopia in 2023 (UNHR)
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Broken Promises: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Before and After the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in Tigray, Ethiopia (Physicians for Human Rights)
Executive Summary The conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia between the government ofEthiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), withinvolvement from Eritrean military forces and numerous ethnoregional militia groups, has been marked by widespread conflictrelated sexual violence. Reports of conflict-related sexual violenceas a significant element of the conflict surfaced both beforeand after the signing of the …
A Requiem for Hyperglobalization: Why the World Will Miss History’s Greatest Economic Miracle (Dev Patel, Justin Sandfeur, and Arvind Subramanian)
The Berlin Wall’s fall was a unique moment in geopolitical history, ushering in an era of unipolarity as the United States became the world’s hegemon. But it also heralded an unprecedented economic phenomenon: convergence. As early as the fifteenth century, formerly prosperous societies from Mesoamerica to China suffered reversals of fortune, falling—or being pushed—behind the …
Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World? The Warnings in World 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 A third magnet, however, randomizes the motion, not because the laws of physics have been repealed, but because the forces involved are too intricate to measure. Read …
Mr. President, please pardon Trump for the country’s—and your own—good (Paul E. Peterson, Hoover Institution)
Excuse me, Mr. President. As the country awaits a decision on the imprisonment of a former president, would you consider using the presidential power to pardon? Leaders seldom show magnanimity toward political rivals. Romulus killed Remus, Brutus stabbed Casear, Henry the VIII murdered Thomas More, Stalin poisoned Trotsky. In recent years, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Israel, South …
The Sweep and Force of Section Three (William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen)
Abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because of arange of misperceptions and mistaken assumptions, Section Three’s full legal consequences have not been appreciated or enforced. This article corrects those mistakesby setting forth the full sweep and force of Section Three. …
Nuclear War Expert: 72 Minutes To Wipe Out 60% Of Humans, In The Hands Of 1 Person! (Annie Jacobsen on The Diary of a CEO)
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her books include, ‘Area 51’, ‘Operation Paperclip’, and ‘The Pentagon’s Brain’. Watch the Video
Human Welfare (Richard A. Epstein)
Writers such as Stiglitz fail to refute the great conservative and libertarian thinkers. The deep political polarization in the United States has spilled over to the academic realm. Today’s progressive thinkers are determined to undermine the influence of the great conservative and libertarian thinkers—most notably John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. One prominent …
The Jim Crow Era | A Stain on America’s Past (The Great Courses)
An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks’ famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how “separate but equal” was far …