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An interesting shift happens when a kid is learning to drive, and you’re both inside a box with your fear, moving 40 miles an hour
Despite progressive laws and decades of research, intimate-partner femicide is rising again in South Africa. Research presented in Cape Town reveals that saving women requires shifting from empty policies to decisive state action and enforcement
David Huerta was arrested while protesting ICE raids in LA
I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was twenty degrees in the daytime, five degrees at night. Two and a. The post Seven Years Alone on Wildcat Mountain appeared first on First Things
Self-Evident Truths? Even those of us who have forgotten most of what we learned in school about the Declaration of Independence can still likely recite its famous second sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In his recent book Radical Universalism: Beyond Identity, the Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm recalls ask...
Whose German Idealism? Toward the beginning of his career, the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who passed away at ninety-six earlier this year, wrote an essay titled “The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers.” Rebutting the conventional putdown that Jewish thinkers were at best second-rate, Habermas insisted that they had been full participants in German thought from the days of Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn. “The German Idealism of the Jews produces a critical utopia,” Habermas main...
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The article explores how Donald Trump's unpredictable leadership style is contributing to the fragmentation of global alliances and destabilizing the established world order.
It turns out running a poll to ask Twitter whether Ben Wallace should be prosecuted for treason is perhaps not savvy politics. Zia Yusuf. the Reform home affairs spokesman has today been slapped down by his leader Nigel Farage for labelling the former Tory defence secretary a "traitor" for allowing thousands of Afghans into the country. Farage has said the language is "over the top" and that Yusuf will be getting a "ticking off". A poll today has Reform at their lowest since the 2024 general ...