ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Older investors who rely on retirement savings to pay for living expenses are largely opposed to ESG initiatives and unwilling to suffer financial loss to advance environmental and social goals. ESG is overwhelmingly supported by young investors who want investment managers to take an active stance on climate change, diversity, and other stakeholder initiatives. Read …
As we approach the conclusion of the 2022 election season, the political environment appears to have drifted halfway between early-year extremes. Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion rights, the GOP seemed poised to ride economic issues – particularly inflation – to a convincing midterm victory. The court’s ruling in Dobbs pushed the momentum back toward …
Pessimists might say that life has no ultimate or cosmic meaning and thus that a beach bum’s life is no more or less meaningful—in the grand scheme of things—than the lives of Beethoven, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Marie Curie.[2] Read more
Report of a faculty committee, under the chairmanship of Harry Kalven, Jr. Committee appointed by President George W. Beadle. Report published in the Record, Vol. I, No. 1, November 11, 1967. Read more
From its very founding, the University of Chicago has dedicated itself to thepreservation and celebration of the freedom of expression as an essential element of theUniversity’s culture. In 1902, in his address marking the University’s decennial,President William Rainey Harper declared that “the principle of complete freedom ofspeech on all subjects has from the beginning been …
The bottom line: we call for universities and professional associations to adopt and implement the Chicago Principles of free speech, the Kalven Report requirement for institutional neutrality on political and social matters, and the Shils report making academic contribution the sole basis for hiring and promotion. Read more
For over a century, people around the world have lived through an American era: a period dominated by U.S. power, wealth, institutions, ideas, alliances, and partnerships. But many now believe this long epoch is drawing to a close. The U.S.-led world, they insist, is giving way to something new—a post-American, post-Western, postliberal order marked by …
U.S. troops are now on the ground in Ukraine, where they are monitoring NATO arms deliveries to the country, an anonymous Pentagon official told several U.S. media outlets on Monday. It is unclear how many personnel are involved, or where they are located. Read more
When psychologist Abraham Maslow died, he wasn’t quite finished with his famous hierarchy of human needs. Read more
What we can see in the sky either with the naked eye or with optical instruments is only a small fraction of what we know as the universe. Why? The rest of the universe does not emit any kind of light in any spectrum that we can detect; however, the presence of this matter and …