Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I am Europe’s last chance.” As a continent burned and lay devastated by his own actions, he still
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government,
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It all makes more sense when I’m out here alone,” he smiled. “I can talk myself into anything.”― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides As the world edges toward 2026, it is tempting
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The World in 2025 In 2025, the global civil aviation system was once again reminded of the inescapable reality that the skies, while governed by law and sustained by international cooperation, are
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The United States, Russia and China According to the Hub – a Canadian public policy and ideas platform – as the calendar turns toward 2026, the era in which the United States proclaimed itself
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — attributed to Niels Bohr It has been my custom, bordering on a private ritual, to begin each calendar year with The World Ahead of The Economist and
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The perennial endeavor to distinguish prose from poetry has occupied poets, philosophers, and scholars through the centuries, each attempting to hold in place two forms of expression that appear, at once, kindred
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The development of aviation has opened up the world in a way that no other single invention has done before. – Charles Lindbergh In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 7
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If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth
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The law is reason, free from passion – Aristotle I read with interest the interview conducted by Nilantha Ilangamuwa with Professor Deepika Udagama, which appeared in this newspaper on 23 November. It was
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“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” ~ Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Staged in the broad, resonant spaces of the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles during its much-anticipated 2025 season,
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