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Javier Milei speaks after knowing the electoral results. RTVE

Argentina and Javier Milei’s libertarian experiment

Rarely has a presidential election in Latin America attracted so much attention in the rest of the world, but the emergence of Javier Milei and his libertarian project has focused the attention…

Israel-Hamas conflict: what young Palestinians think about four key issues that affect their lives

By Erika Jiménez On the eighth day of the current intensification of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, I saw a tweet that said that there would be more uproar in the West…

Can Israel and Hamas be held to account for alleged crimes against civilians?

By Amy Maguire International humanitarian law – the law of armed conflict – aims to constrain how wars are fought. It is designed to protect noncombatants and limit the means of warfare.…

The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: many voices, no shared vision

At this stage, coordinated action by France, Germany and the UK, as in the case of Iran, does not seem to be in sight either. Unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian issue shows the limits…

High quality international education as a catalyst for growth of future leaders

It is about showcasing how to interpret ‘the other’ by adopting an attitude of acceptance and tolerance…

The BADGER explosion on April 18, 1953, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, at the Nevada Test Site. Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office

Oppenheimer’s warning lives on: international laws and treaties are failing to stop a new arms race

As with every potential future threat, it seems, international law and regulation are left scrambling to catch up with the march of technology – to govern what Oppenheimer called “the relations between…

Noam Chomsky versus Collapse Theory – A New “Debate of the Century”

A New “Debate of the Century” between Noam Chomsky, Miguel Fuentes, Guy McPherson, John Bellamy Foster, Yanis Varoufakis, and Max Wilbert…

Mass shootings in Serbia. Photo by: Yamel Santana Valdés-Hernández.

What mass shootings in Serbia tell us about systemic violence and social death

Although Serbia still ranks third behind the United States and Yemen in gun ownership, with an estimated 39 firearms per 100 inhabitants, acts of this nature are atypical in the country…

The politics of the castaway story

The castaway story has helped promulgate a view about human nature as eternal and unchanging. By taking human beings out of society, our supposedly fundamentally individualist survival instincts come to the fore.…

Caution Tape at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C.

Why can’t Americans agree on, well, nearly anything? Philosophy has some answers

Two ideas can help us think about polarization on matters of fact. The first is epistemic pluralism, and the second is epistemic dependence…

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