The Good Samaritan is a model of virtue because he gave assistance to a stranger who sorely needed it, at significant cost to himself, after several who might have been thought to have a greater duty to help passed the sufferer by. But what if there is no such thing as virtue? What if the […]
The bridge extends between Ortaköy (in Europe) and Beylerbeyi (in Asia).
Family formation became a matter of individual choice, independent of family.
Will it change their situation?
Repentance is hard. Obtaining true forgiveness is even harder. So it is no surprise that over the ages, people have tried to find shortcuts around the difficult chores of changing one’s ways and being forgiven for going astray. This week’s New Yorker carries the story of one such effort: the activities of the world’s largest […]
“If I die I know the fruit will exceed the cost a thousand fold.”
The world is placing all its chips on one outcome when it comes to climate change, writes CLARE FRANCES, but ignoring the obvious question
United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the People’s Republic of China
Mary Harrington’s scorching polemic urges us to rediscover feminism’s reactionary potential.
“Run” (润) has been one of the hottest words in the Chinese language since 2021. A clever wordplay on both the Chinese pronunciation and English meaning of the word, “run” refers to the recent trend of emigrating from an increasingly restrictive and authoritarian China for greener pastures overseas. This emigration wave, which began shortly after […]
Phelim Roe O’Neill or Féilim Rua Ó Néill – was an Irish leader, from the famous O’Neill family, who led the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in Ulster on 23 October when the Irish rebels attacked Protestant plantation settlements and took garrison towns held by the Irish Army. The Plantation of Ulster was the organised colonisation […]
There is more than one way forward