Category: Political Philosophy
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الفساد والإصلاح في السياسة.
إذا أردت أن تساعد الناس، فقل لهم الحقيقة. أما لو أردت أن تساعد نفسك، فقل لهم ما يودون سماعه. توماس سول. المدخل: لا يخلو أي مجتمع في العالم من المشاكل، ولكل مجتمع مشاكله الخاصة التي يتفرد بها. ولكن أغلب مشاكل أي مجتمع هي مشاكل عالمية تعاني منها كل مجتمعات، لأنها متجذرة في طبيعة الإنسان. فتعاني…
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الحياة الخاصة للأفراد من فئة غير محددي الجنسية
“يمكن كل واحد بهالعالم خايف من كل واحد غيره.”. جون ستاينبك، عن الفئران والرجال المقدمة: هناك تصور عام يشاركه الكثير من الأفراد حول العالم عن اختلاف النتائج الاجتماعية الناتجة عن توظيف فئة معينة من المجتمع دون أخرى على المجتمع ككل. توظيف الكويتيين في الكويت يأخذ الأسبقية على توظيف السعوديين في الكويت، وربما توظيف السعوديين…
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Nationality and Statelessness.
“The first grave. Now we’re getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that’s home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.” John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown. Introduction: As human beings, not completely rational as we sometimes think we are, yet barely able at times to control our emotions and impulses, we find…
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A Brief Review of Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, by Thomas Sowell
One of Thomas Sowell’s earlier books, ‘Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?’ is a book about the Regression Fallacy. Simply put, this fallacy states that it is logically impermissible to claim that a change in the states of affairs X occurred because of a change in policy or behavior, Y. It is a derivative of the…
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A Brief Review of The Quest for Cosmic Justice, by Thomas Sowell
This is my second book by Thomas Sowell, and it is a treasure chest. I read it twice in the past, and now through Audible. It contains four short books (or four long essays) whose main themes are within the disciplines of political philosophy, sociology, history, and legal scholarship, but each chapter contains an element…
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The Politics of Confusion: A Review of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism.
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a…
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Government Ownership of Petroleum
“It is as if the average human assumes that a coercive governance must be established or assigned despite the fact that such a government is often not very efficient or even involved in the outcomes we ultimately want, peace and prosperity.” Block and Sløk-Madsen, Who Should Own the North Pole? In many oil-producing countries, governments…
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