ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
John Vervaeke has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994 and became an Associate Professor in 2019. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an …
Most of the reasons Trumpers give for admiring Trump are not based in reality. Despite what they may WANT to believe about Trump, he is not courageous and brave, he doesn’t care about the average person, he isn’t knowledgeable about the world, he is more a failure in business than a success, he was not …
The so-called rules-based international order is under serious threat. But it is a mistake to blame Donald Trump. In fact, that order was bound to fail, because the key policies on which it rested are deeply flawed. Watch the video
Postmodernism is necessary for a politics of individual liberty. That was the topic of a public debate hosted by the Soho Forum in New York City on June 17, 2019. It featured Stephen Hicks, a professor of philosophy at Rockford University, and author Thaddeus Russell. Soho Forum director Gene Epstein moderated. Watch the Video
In this video from the interview series Closer to Truth, the US presenter Robert Lawrence Kuhn and the UK philosopher A C Grayling peel back the layers of a question that’s been bandied about in many a Philosophy 101 classroom – ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ With Kuhn defending the question as a legitimate line of enquiry, and …
Even if the really big finds of archaeology may already belong to the past, experts are all over the world looking for traces of former civilizations and their remains. In the process, small and large things are found every day that help to establish connections and better understand the origins of today’s civilization. Again and …
Why Political Freedom and Prosperity Go Hand in Hand Socialism’s disastrous history shows us that political and economic freedom is the foundation for enduringly successful nations. Note: This is Hoover Institution’s Human Prosperity Project. Watch the Video
To explain one of the core classical liberal concepts, IHS offers a video exploring the theme of spontaneous order. The video features Bruce Caldwell, professor of economics at Duke University, describing the role of spontaneous order in society. “Spontaneous orders are often contrasted with constructed orders,” Caldwell says. “The idea that you can have something that …
This is a video by Thomas Sowell, an American economist, political commentator, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. It is mentioned in the video that academics, except those subject to testing such as science and mathematics, is not serving society well which I agree with. But unfortunately, Thomas talks only about the left …
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one – Homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the …