During at least its first millennium, Christianity—with the notable exception of Clement of Alexandria—held that greed is tightly coupled to...

Two months after the collapse of Germany’s ruling coalition in the Bundestag, which problematically left a minority government in place, Cha...

One of the leitmotifs of the four Christian Gospels is the surprising value of peripheries even over people who are up front, whether politi...

On December 14, 2024, Mikheil Kavelashvili became the president of Georgia, further cementing the Georgian Dream Party’s grip on power at th...

In the wake of the downfall of Syria’s Assad in December, 2024, that he had used chemical weapons against civilians in rebel areas against i...

Once Syria’s Assad regime folded, Travis Timmerman, an American who had entered Syria on a religious pilgrimage, was freed from a prison aft...

After the UnitedHealthcare chief executive “was gunned down by a masked man outside a Manhattan hotel” in New York City, “a days-long manhun...

“With the rise of AI, self-driving cars, and wi-fi connected appliances, it can feel like innovation is everywhere these days.” [1] Lest th...

In December, 2024, Amnesty International, a highly reputed human rights international organization “found sufficient basis to conclude that ...

On December 6, 2024, the E.U. finally—meaning more than twenty years after negotiations had begun—reached a free-trade agreement with Argent...

The corruption of an individual manager or non-supervisory employee, or even a government official can be distinguished between the collusio...

A landslide electoral victory in representative democracy is typically limited to the criterion of the extent of the vote-spread between can...

Adam Smith theorized that price competition on products and labor would allow the self-interests of the buyers and sellers to result in unin...

Should philosophers at universities, by which I mean scholars who hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, try to be relevant?   Nietzsche wrote that no ...

Why do some countries have more inequality in terms of wealth or economic development, whether between big cities and urban areas, or just f...