A new biography of Stephen Hawking presents the renowned physicist not simply as a scientific celebrity who overcame severe disability, but as a researcher whose relationships, intellectual clarity and determination were central
Today marks the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man. To purchase a copy, please click here. I composed my essay “The End of History?” sitting in
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Fifty years after Mao Zedong died, China has changed almost beyond recognition, yet one of his most enduring ideas remains firmly embedded in the political machinery of the Communist Party. China is
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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks shifted American fears towards threats originating overseas, public concern has increasingly turned inward, with Americans now considerably more worried about attacks by domestic extremists than
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo When General Shavendra Silva sat down with Ankit Chauhan, an Indian national and the founder and host of the Impact Stories podcast, the conversation quickly moved beyond
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The UK government has rejected Jamaica’s demand for financial reparations over Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, reaffirming on September 7 that it will not enter negotiations or pay compensation, even
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The year 1874 marks a silent turning point in India’s freedom struggle—not through political uprisings, but through cultural awakening. While historians often trace organised nationalism to the founding of the Congress in
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European countries are increasingly confronting the history and continuing consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, yet formal apologies and meaningful reparations remain rare as governments draw a legal line between acknowledging the
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The Episcopal Church has a Very Reverend Dean who trans-identifies as a man. The Dean is married to a woman who also trans-identifies as a man and is a Lutheran pastor. So, what
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The crimson flags hanging over Nanjie village’s “East is Red” Square barely move in the sweltering summer heat as tourists pose for photographs beside a towering statue of Chairman Mao Zedong. Nearly
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Wittenoom no longer appears on Australia’s road signs. It has been removed from official maps, abandoned and effectively erased. Nobody lives there, and visiting is prohibited. Yet for decades this remote settlement
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Senior Serbian politicians and military figures have attended a memorial ceremony for the recently deceased war criminal Ratko Mladić, drawing renewed criticism over his public commemoration and prompting the European Union to
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The People’s Palace Scene: The End of an Experiment and the Beginning of a Question On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from the People’s Palace in Damascus the end of the mission of
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Sonia Gandhi is set to publish a deeply personal memoir examining the extraordinary journey that took her from a small village in Italy to becoming one of the most prominent political figures
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The month of August lived up to the caption of “the living, dead and disappeared.” The month saw the end of the 10-day Kandy Esala Perahera festival in all its glory. The
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The battle over Torreciudad, the spiritual heart of Opus Dei in Spain, has moved from a local dispute into a revealing test of power inside the Catholic Church. Newly disclosed handwritten letters
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