ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election could not have come at a better time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More than 13 months since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Israel finds itself on a roll. Since the beginning of the year, Israel has assassinated much of the senior leadership of both …
Addressing problems like climate change and biodiversity loss calls for new thinking about how to mobilize the huge volume of financing that will be needed. International cooperation must be re-framed as a collective endeavor in which all countries benefit, contribute, and make investment decisions together. LONDON – Following the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia …
This week in Say More, PS talks with Nicholas Agar, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and the author, most recently, of How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic’s Guide to Technology. Project Syndicate: You recently wrote that the “horizon bias” – the belief that what could happen will happen soon – “is most consequential in …
In the face of existential threats like climate change, we have a responsibility to improve our decision-making radically. Since cooperation has always been humanity’s superpower, the first step must be to rebuild a global culture of cooperation, underpinned by a shared, fact-based understanding of reality and trust in institutions. Read More
With unified Republican control of the White House and Congress, US President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pursue radical economic policies. By undermining the independence of the Federal Reserve, enacting massive tax cuts, and loosening cryptocurrency regulations, he risks triggering an inflationary surge. Read More
The situation in Ukraine is becoming increasingly absurd. While American isolationists and the media treat Ukraine’s use of longer-range missiles against Russia as a dangerous escalation, Russia’s fresh wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure is treated as par for the course. Read More
It is often said that a businessman like Donald Trump or Elon Musk will know how to put America’s fiscal house in order. But between Trump’s planned tax cuts and Musk’s absurd estimate of how much federal spending can be reduced, the smart money says they have no idea what they are doing. Cambridge: When …
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Ryan Johnson, associate professor of philosophy, traces the influence of German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel in the work of American philosophers in “Three American Hegels.” Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy Ryan Johnson published his seventh book this fall, an exploration of three seminal American philosophers who shaped national thought by incorporating the …
When historians write about President Biden and his administration, the president’s response to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 will be the most significant chapter in the foreign policy section. We already know how that chapter starts; we don’t know how it ends. Biden still has several weeks to make pivotal decisions that …