የብልጽግና ዶክመንተሪዎችና ምስጢሮች ፤ፋኖና ኦርቶዶክስ በሚሊየነሮቹ ፊልሞች (ETHIO FORUM)
A brief report on the Ethiopian government’s documentaries. Watch the Video
Human Rights
Disillusionment and rebellion (David Leonhardt, The New York Times)
Many people have been surprised by the shift of Latino voters toward the Republican Party. It has happened during the same decade that Donald Trump took over the party, and Trump often derides immigrants, including Latinos. Nevertheless, Latino support for Republicans has risen: Sources: Catalist (2012, 2016 and 2020); New York Times/Siena College April poll …
ከእስራኤል የተገዛው የስለላ መሳሪያ ፤ በመንግስት ቢሮ ውስጥ የሚደበደቡ ሰዎች (ETHIO FORUM)
A very good synopsis of the inhumane practices of the Ethiopian government. Watch the Video
Sartre’s Political Philosophy (Storm Heter)
French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the best known European public intellectual of the twentieth century, developed a highly original political philosophy, influenced in part by the work of Hegel and Marx. Although he wrote little on ethics or politics prior to World War II, political themes dominated his writings from 1945 onwards. Sartre co-founded the journal Les Temps Modernes, …
Political Philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre (Ted Clayton)
This article focuses on Alasdair MacIntyre’s contribution to political philosophy since 1981, although MacIntyre has also written influential works on theology, Marxism, rationality, metaphysics, ethics, and the history of philosophy. He has made a personal intellectual journey from Marxism to Catholicism and from Aristotle to Aquinas, and he is one of the preeminent Thomist political philosophers. The most consistent and most …
Thomas Aquinas: Political Philosophy (Peter Koristansky)
The political philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), along with the broader philosophical teaching of which it is part, stands at the crossroads between the Christian gospel and the Aristotelian political doctrine that was, in Aquinas’ time, newly discovered in the Western world. In fact, Aquinas’ whole developed system is often understood to be simply a modification of Aristotelian philosophy …
Policy Knowledge in the Public (Michael J. Boskin and Douglas Rivers)
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have aright . . . and a desire to know.—John Adams 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. …
2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ethiopia (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the U.S. Department of State)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In November 2022, the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, ending active hostilities between them, which held throughout the year, although reports of abuses by Eritrean troops along the border and by militia groups persisted. In March the U.S. Secretary of State “determined that members of …
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State)
The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, also known as the Human Rights Reports, cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Report – cover internationally recognized …
A Dubious Commitment to “Saving Democracy” (Richard A. Epstein)
Overreach by agencies, prosecutors, and the president underscores a hollow slogan. During this election year, one insistent theme refers to the urgency of “saving American democracy.” In the abstract, no one cares to dispute that proposition: at its core, it claims that we should have free and fair elections to make sure that the people …