Current Issue: Volume 4, Issue 3 (2025)

Onward into the Future

This issue explores a wide variety of social, political, and economic aspects to contemporary political crises, from the legacy of UN development projects, to potentially unintentional transitions away from capitalism, to legalism, polarization, and academic freedom. Together, the contributions made here reflect diverse efforts by scholars to get in front of the sizeable problems confronting the world in which we live, so that we can once again see the horizon of the future. It also reflects on similar efforts made in a previous era, and provides a forum where we can learn from our recent intellectual past. As 2026 approaches, and my ever-supportive mother waits patiently for me to finish editing, so that we can celebrate the New Year after her long flight from Chicago, I hope that this journal can play some role in reorienting our intellectual lives beyond shock and fear toward courage to meet the new opportunities that await us.

The cover art for this issue is by Ahmed Abu Awad, a Palestinian writer and fine art photographer born in 1994 in Al-Shati Refugee Camp, Gaza. He studied Journalism and Public Relations at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. He began his career as a writer and art editor at '28 Cultural Magazine' and later worked as a photographer with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.