The Supreme Court’s announcement comes as a mixture of good news and bad for defenders of free speech.
Immediate ceasefire required
Having children is a responsibility; it takes sacrifices, but it is also the greatest gift and the highest level of human fulfilment.
Women who are turned into sex icons as teenagers often suffer horribly
The Old and New Left share the same essential disdain for national, cultural, religious, and civilizational differences
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 […]
Third time
Family formation became a matter of individual choice, independent of family.
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 […]
As one of them said this week, sarcastically referencing Trump’s 2016 promise: “I’ll be honest with you, I really am starting to get tired of all the winning”.
“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 […]
There is more than one way forward