ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Say what you like about progressives in America and their nebulous calls for “racial equity”, but they got one thing right: college admissions have always been a zero-sum game. With limited places at the prestigious universities and tens of millions of applicants, some sort of discrimination in deciding who gets accepted is inevitable. The question …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Conservative former U.S. appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig in an opinion piece on Sunday said Republicans are making a serious error with “spineless support” for Donald Trump’s new bid for the White House. Lutting wrote in the New York Times that the Republican Party is in part to blame for …
Georg Simmel was born in the heart of Berlin in 1858. That city epitomised the tensions of Germany’s special path to modernity. Rapid urbanisation and financial speculation propelled Berlin to the world stage. An avant-garde cultural elite flourished uneasily alongside central Europe’s aristocracy while a young proletariat fought the state and the bourgeoisie for rights, …
Religion has been used as an excuse for a very long time. That’s not to say that all manipulation is wrong; for instance, heart surgery patients who fervently prayed to a “higher power” and worked on their belief ended up having a survival rate three times higher than those who didn’t. But then there are folks like this …
Encourage Defections Among Soldiers and Diplomats (Stephen E. Biegun and David J. Kramer) In the month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, policymakers and analysts have stressed the lengths to which Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone to concentrate power in his own hands. But no matter how tight his control over Russia has become, …
The Underappreciated Resilience of Today’s Autocracies (Lucan Ahmad Way) Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies. In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping confronted the largest antigovernment demonstrations since the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Provoked by Beijing’s stringent “zero COVID” policies, protesters across the country made overtly political demands, …
In its recent decision in Allen v. Milligan, the Supreme Court, to the evident surprise and pleasure of progressive commentators, handed down a five-to-four provision that sustained a racial-discrimination challenge brought by black voters in Alabama to a district map prepared by Alabama’s Republican Party. That map gave black voters, who compose about 27 percent of Alabama’s population, …
Earlier this month, South Carolina teacher Mary Wood was ordered by school administrators to “cease” teaching about the history of racism after two students complained that the topic offended them. “Students in an advanced placement language arts class at Chapin High School last spring were scheduled to read Between the World and Me, a 2015 memoir by …
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill this week that keeps automakers using dealerships — with one notable exception for Elon Musk’s Tesla. The measure bans car manufacturers from selling directly to consumers in the state and instead requires them to rely on franchised dealerships. Read more
Anew study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are independently associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. When people believed in both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism, their distrust of government officials increased significantly. The findings, published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, provide insight into the …