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You’ve heard the terms. Liberal hawk. War dove. Academic circles may prefer ‘liberal interventionist.’ The term applies...

A turbulent America is at the peak of its long entanglement in Vietnam. The camera pans to the left, and there we spy...

What goes “viral”? One answer might be: “An idea whose time has come.” Things go viral when they strike a nerve. This...

You are a proud and deep-rooted people. So why are you acting like serfs? Why are you allowing yourselves to be played...

Nothing in history is so constant as violence. Peering into the past, we are sure to find a host of evils perpetrated by...

When does life begin? This question might mean different things to, say, a teen-ager, yearning for excitement; or to a...

It was in the backseat of a white pickup that I learned about the people of the bat. It was 2016. My mother had died the...

“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like...

One day we'll let our minds drift back to the original dream — the FREENET — and wonder how we were suckered into taking...

Animal flesh is an environmentally disastrous source of protein. And factory farming is responsible for more suffering...

My teenage daughter’s social life is a whirl of competing invitations: You wanna go thrifting, or to the movies? Or...

“All of them means all of them” — so said the people of Lebanon, demanding that their leaders be sacked. Belonging to...

It is a long way from the west coast of Canada to central New Jersey. In August, I moved from the Lower Mainland to...

You know the story. An irreversible extinction event is about to drop – literally. A meteorite is on a collision course...

If economists could see past their mathematical models and formalist pretensions and embrace psychology, sociology and...

A corporation has no heart, no soul, no morals. When it hurts people or damages the environment, it will feel no sorrow...

Blame Johnny Rotten (who by the way, was never really an anarchist – he only needed a rhyme for “antichrist” in that...

The easy thing to do right now is pick a side. To let darkness get me all stirred up, convince me I know who’s right,...