ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The circus spirit is strong in British politics. It makes a rowdy theatre of parliament and a clown-car parade of election campaigns. Every show is different to the extent that no two candidates are the same, but convention and a fixed repertoire of plots make for a familiar experience. There must be farce (hot microphone …
Stanford University Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) presentation on the social and economic ramifications of AI. Watch the Video
17 Goals for People, for Planet World leaders came together in 2015 and made a historic promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet when they adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agenda remains the world’s roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet …
Maintaining a tradition of high-impact research and policy advice, this latest report from the NewLines Institute was prepared by a talented group of international law professionals with expertisein international criminal law and human rights. Distinctive for the breadth and depth of analysis,it has the potential to become a landmark step in the road to accountability …
Spinoza attempted to replace religion (old Testament) with Ethics. He believed in God but in a way different from usual or universally accepted. This video is a documentation of this fact based on Spinoza’s book, Ethics. Watch the Video
Benedict de Spinoza was among the most important of the post-Cartesian philosophers who flourished in the second half of the 17th century. He made significant contributions in virtually every area of philosophy, and his writings reveal the influence of such divergent sources as Stoicism, Jewish Rationalism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, and a variety of heterodox religious thinkers …
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election. But it was the ballot signature verification …
John Finnis’s Natural Law and Natural Rights’ is a remarkable book.Finnis offers a robust exposition and defence of natural law-but in termsthat differ significantly from the way in which this tradition is oftenunderstood today, not least by its defenders. He does so by means ofstriking and powerful arguments; arguments that owe little, however, tothe major …
A core fnding of public opinion research is that most voters do not know much about thepolicy debates that occur among academic experts, Congress, and the bureaucracy and arecovered in the press. Their knowledge is thin, ofen confused, and sometimes mistaken(Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996; Lupia 2015). To some extent, this is inevitable, because individual …
By asserting its right to pursue an immigration policy at odds with that of the US federal government, Texas is reviving a constitutional debate that recurred throughout the early nineteenth century, culminating in the Civil War. It is an ominous reminder that the perpetuation of the Union can never be taken for granted. CHICAGO – …