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…

HARRY HAFT is not a name many boxing fans will recognise — which is a shame because this is a man who endured more than anyone who’s ever laced up the gloves, a young man who was quite literally forced to fight for his own survival. Born Herschel Haft in…

In November 2022 the foundation stone of Gaza’s first ever boxing centre for girls was laid in a ceremony that was attended by, among others, proprietor and head coach Osama Ayoub and International Boxing Association President Umar Kremlev. At the ceremony, Kremlev announced: “This centre will become an international boxing…

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. ― Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow Diego Maradona’s death on November 25 2019 ended the man and gave birth to the legend. It is a legend that has only grown more pronounced as time has passed…

It is time to imagine a world without Israel. States come and states go in a neverending cycle that has marked human history since time immemorial. Many states that once believed themselves to be permanent and perpetual have collapsed due to the contradictions sown by their very existence. In modern…

The ritual of tribute to fallen soldiers is a tradition that stretches back to antiquity. …

He who is confident of his own men, but is ignorant that the enemy should not be attacked, has no certainty of victory. Sun Tzu — The Art of War Who can tell what the calculus was behind the decision of the leadership of Hamas to stage the October 7…