The one thing upon which the world’s major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed are the perils and evil of human greed. Unfortunately, there are some people who didn’t get this particular memo. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire. According to the…

Few writers understood America’s racist soul as keenly as Richard Wright (pictured above), and few used their pen as mercilessly as he did as a weapon to excoriate and expose it. In black heavyweight champion and ring legend, Joe Louis, Wright found the perfect symbol of black resistance to the…

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy: On 27 January in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest…

There are ideas that will not die regardless of the passage of time; their power and reach of such magnitude. One of those ideas is Pan-Africanism. The idea, history and cause of Pan-Africanism is marked, celebrated, and reaffirmed each year on African Liberation Day, which in 2023 falls on Thursday…

Antony Blinken is clearly labouring under the misconception that he is secretary of state for the world, rather than justthe US. How else to explain his repeated attempts to lecture China over its relations with Russia? During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent state visit to Moscow, Blinken took the opportunity…

You will scour the mainstream media in the West since 2014 and find nary a mention of the plight of Russian-speakers and ethnic Russians resident in eastern and southern Ukraine in the years following the event that in truth marked tthe beginning of the current conflict: the Maidan coup of…

MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. William Butler Yeats’ epic poem (excerpted above) on the Easter Rising of 1916 — Easter, 1916 — immortalized an event that possesses all the…

George W. Bush, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, the head of NATO who oversaw the bombing of Serbia in 1999, the head of NATO who oversaw in conjunction with Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy the destruction of Libya in 2011, Benjamin Netanyahu and every Israeli prime minister there…

Just what is it that drives people to immerse themselves in a political cause or movement against a war being waged thousands of miles away, involving a country they have never visited, and a people and a culture they have no obvious connection with? When you think about it, one…