From Joseph Conrad "What one lives for may be uncertain; how one lives is not. Man should live nobly though he does not see any practi...

  Whither Ukraine? This is such a maddening and perplexing issue to me.   Here I am on the outside, having read a huge amount of Russian his...

 "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is if it is comfort or money that it values mo...

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  In a searing column by Thomas Friedman titled  Have We Reshaped Middle East Politics or Started to Mimic It?,   Friedman asserts  that we ...

  I just finished reading a mind-opening book,   Think Again   by Adam Grant.  It got me thinking   again   on many subjects. Here I will hi...

 There are very few books which I have read that provide more intellectual stimulation and  challenge  than Barry Gewen’s  The Inevitability...