That’s what US President-elect Joe Biden is telling the world now, and for many outside the United States, it’s a welcome message. It’s a sign of things getting back to “normal” now that the controversial and divisive Donald Trump has been defeated. The Trump administration tried so hard, so very hard, to stack the judiciary in its favour. The Republicans blocked Merrick Garland, former Democrat President Barack Obama’s supreme court nominee in 2016 (because it was during a presidential election year) while pushing through Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 (during a presidential election year). In his fortnightly column, Contradictheory, mathematician-turned-scriptwriter Dzof Azmi explores the theory that logic is the antithesis of emotion but people need both to make sense of life’s vagaries and contradictions.

Source: The Star December 15, 2020 02:03 UTC