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Ed GaskinThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Culture Builds What Politics Cannot: How Art, Language, and Narrative Reopen the Future This essay is part of the series “Before Reconstruction: The...
This essay is part of the series “Before Reconstruction: The Moral Architecture of Peace,” which explores the psychological, moral, and...
Unhealed Trauma Becomes Ideology: Why Reconstruction Fails Without Psychological Repair Wars rarely end when the guns fall silent. They continue...
Political agreements and physical reconstruction cannot succeed unless societies possess the moral, cultural, and psychological capacity to sustain...
Slavery did not begin with ships, chains, or markets.It began with a story. Long before Africans were enslaved in large numbers, Africa itself had to...
Introduction: Recovering a Silenced Story For centuries, Western narratives portrayed Africa as passive—a continent of helpless victims, easily...
Introduction: A Counterpoint to Compromise In earlier essays we traced how European Christianity bent under the weight of profit, reshaping theology...
For much of Christian history, theology placed limits on slavery. In late antiquity and the medieval period, the prevailing teaching was that while it...
Romans 2:15 declares that even those without the written law “show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also...
Once hierarchy is sanctified, it must be preserved. Ideas endure not only through sermons and philosophy but through institutions. Schools,...
Once humanity is graded, hierarchy must be moralized. Intellectual systems alone do not sustain inequality. They must be justified. They must be...
If civilizations can be ranked, so can people. In the previous column, we examined how historical sequence hardened into civilizational replacement....
If Europe made itself the future, what followed was not immediate conquest, but something subtler. When sequence becomes hierarchy, hierarchy begins...
If Africa was never behind, how did it become “behind”? The answer lies not first in Africa, but in Europe. Europe did not merely rise in power...
The claim that Africa was “behind” Europe is not a historical observation. It is a civilizational judgment. For centuries, Africa has been...
How African Kinship Systems Structured Power, Constrained Rulers, and Sustained States History is often taught as if political order followed a single...
Conflict Resolution & Restorative Justice in African Political Thought History is often taught as if structured conflict resolution matured along...
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