ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The 15 Global Challenges provide a framework to assess the global and local prospects for humanity. Their description, with a range of views and actions to addressed each, enriched with regional views and progress assessments are updated each year, since 1996. A short overview is published in the annual State of the Future, while continuous updates and details are …
Liberal democracies seem more conducive to intellectual progress and economic growth than other forms of governance that have been tried so far, and perhaps also to peace and cooperation (at least with other democracies). Political developments that threaten to shift liberal democracies toward authoritarianism therefore may be risk factors for a variety of disasters (like great …
Economist Bryan Caplan has written about the worry that “stable totalitarianism” — i.e. a global totalitarian regime that lasts for an extremely long period of time — could arise in the future,1 especially if we move toward a more unified world government or if certain technologies make it possible for totalitarian leaders to rule for longer. …
We aim to list issues where each additional person can have the most positive impact. So we focus on problems that others neglect, which are solvable, and which are unusually big in scale, often because they could affect many future generations — such as existential risks. This makes our list different from those you might find elsewhere. It’s also …
The Florida Board of Education has approved a controversial set of academic standards for African American social studies classes in K-12 schools. The standards, which are being released as Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida Republicans have continued a crusade against public education, include language that states “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied …
Edward B. Tylor’s Primitive Culture articulates one of two major theories of culture to emerge around 1870. His theory defines culture in descriptive terms as the “complex whole” that makes up social ideas and institutions, and in this it helped to establish anthropology as a recognized science. Tylor’s ideas were closely related to those published about the …
The word culture has many different meanings. For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food. For a biologist, it is likely to be a colony of bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a nutrient medium in a laboratory Petri dish. However, for anthropologists and other behavioral scientists, culture is the full …
The problem of the social organism, inherited from Comte and Spencer, is the rock upon which the modern schools of sociology have split. Society is composed of parts that have the power of independent locomotion. The fundamental problem of sociology is how to conceive the relations between the parts in such a way as to …
A teacher who loved her job said that the school’s Principal fired her after she asked for more money stating that God told him to do it. Read more
Contemporary election reforms that are purported to increase or decrease turnout tend to have negligible effects on election outcomes. We offer an analytical framework to explain why. Contrary to heated political rhetoric, election policies have small effects on outcomes because they tend to target small shares of the electorate, have a small effect on turnout, …