ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The hallmark of modernity is metaphysical materialism: the notion, as atheist Daniel Dennett put it, that “there is only one sort of stuff, namely matter––the physical stuff of physics, chemistry, and physiology––and the mind is somehow nothing but a physical phenomenon.” The consequences of proclaiming that immaterial reality––mind, soul, God––doesn’t exist has been the rise of …
Is artificial intelligence a global killer or an emerging technology which, if properly harnessed, can improve mankind? And what’s the significance of a low-level National Guard member being able to expose US military secrets? Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster, and John Cochrane discuss the promise and perils of ever-improving AI and what if …
Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) – Ro Khanna, US Congressman representing Silicon Valley, addressed an audience of students and other members of the Stanford community about his vision for achieving level and fair competition with China, reducing tensions in Sino-American relations, deterring People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aggression against Taiwan, and rebuilding America’s manufacturing base, Read more
Hoover senior fellow Niall Ferguson explains why many comparisons of the modern-day United States to the unfree societies of the 1930s and 1940s are misapplied. Those tyrannies were so oppressive that individuals often weren’t allowed to meet and talk with one another late into the night without raising alarms for the regime. To pretend that …
The NATO chief said Friday that members agree that Ukraine will eventually join the decades-old military alliance, which would deliver another blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hopes of preventing alliance expansion. Read more
The Survival of the West and the Demands of the Rest (David Miliband) Ukraine has united the world,” declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a speech on the first anniversary of the start of the war with Russia. If only that were true. The war has certainly united the West, but it has left the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male would be barred from competing on girls or women’s sports teams at federally supported schools and colleges under legislation pushed through Thursday by House Republicans checking off another high-profile item on their social agenda. Read more
Surely no one should see the war in Ukraine as a net positive. The toll in lives on both sides, the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure and the Russian human rights violations, not to mention the high cost to western economies in an era of ballooning deficits and high inflation, all add up to an unmitigated catastrophe. No one can be happy …
The state ought to be oriented toward justice but with a preferential option for its own citizens. It is unethical to employ state resources, the common property of the citizens, without carefully considering how doing so affects them. Foreign policy is neither charity nor a means to spread justice in the world. Read more
The world is currently experiencing a democratic recession, with autocracies like China and Russia posing threats to democracies globally. Watch the video