On June 5th, the presidency of the UN General Assembly, composed of 193 countries, will be elected for its 73rd session. This is an...
Last night I went to see the filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current production of Macbeth. It was not the best nor...
Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), which was published a century ago, in the summer of 1918 became an...
The human condition of loneliness has been of interest to theologians, philosophers and social commentators since the beginning of time. The bible is full...
In recent years the moral authority of the European Union (EU) has been frequently called into question. Today it is the coalition of Italian...
In recent years the Culture War in Europe has touched on a variety of different issues; the role of religion, the meaning and status...
Unlike the 19th century Kulturkampf associated with the name of Bismarck, those of today appear over apparently very small- outwardly non-political battles. They often...
First of all commiserations to my Spanish readers. The defeat of the Spanish side by the Russian team in the World Cup demonstrates yet...
Now and again I find myself thinking ‘either the world has gone mad or I am going crazy. Such was my reaction back in...
Betty and Robert are a young American couple living in a small town of Indiana. She works for a NGO while he has a job...
