The only uncertainty was the identity of the runner-up, with a number of candidates vying for position: Nicolae Ciucă of the ...
Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...
Exponential curves such as these are wreaking havoc upon finite nature. Yet few on the radical left engage in a holistic ...
On Joseph Stiglitz.
We may never unravel the mysteries of this abject gesture. What matters now is what a second Trump term, with Rubio as ...
Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...
Although a long time coming, Trudeau’s fall has been dramatic. He was elected in 2015 promising ‘real change’ and ‘sunny ways ...
Iwas profoundly affected as a young man by the primeval rainforest and the savannahs of British Guyana in South America. I travelled as a land surveyor on the coastlands and into the interior for many ...
Key people.—The self-important type who only thinks himself something when confirmed by the role he plays in collectives which are none, existing merely for the sake of collectivity; the delegate with ...
'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...
We are all learning from the crisis of the British economy, not only about how the economy itself works but also about the links between this and the politics of our society. We certainly need to ...