3+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1119+ words) September 9 marks the birth anniversary of Leo Tolstoy, one of the towering figures of world literature. Born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia, Tolstoy lived a life that gradually moved from aristocratic privilege to moral questioning, from literary fame to spiritual…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (797+ words) Human civilisation has always enjoyed a trial. The Greeks had the agora, medieval Europe the pillory, revolutionary Paris the tribunal, and Victorian Britain the scandal sheet. We have improved on all of them. Our courtroom fits inside a pocket, stays…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (891+ words) As authoritarianism, military tensions, and temperatures rise, it is easy to look at the end of the world as we know it and ask what the point of academia is. However, as I return home from a 3-day conference of…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1323+ words) “We have built our house in the middle of the road.” This phrase is attributed to the Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić in describing the Balkans a region which, because of its geography and history, has long been a crossroads of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (390+ words) We are all familiar with how painful it is for a farmer to lose his land, so one imagine the inner turbulence of a farmer who has not only been forced to sell his ancestral land due to economic compulsions…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (472+ words) The comparison is doing an enormous amount of work, and it is worth slowing down to see what it carries and what it quietly leaves behind. So when a child today asks a model for a song and receives one,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (235+ words) The Years in America The Eight Years of Defence The Philosophy of War The Philosophy of Iran by Dr César Chelala31/08/2026 The woman who opened doors for Latin American poets in New York Some people’s lives are marked by an unwavering…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (942+ words) The security guard in a neighborhood not far from ours represents, to my mind, something of that happy world a world at peace with itself. You see him in his black uniform, moving around the neighborhood with a smile that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (268+ words) Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (588+ words) Chattopadhyaya’s most significant contribution lies in his endeavour to uncover and document a materialist current within the ancient Indian philosophical tradition, challenging the monolithic portrayal of India as an exclusively spiritual civilisation. His first major work, “Lokayata: A Study in…...