In Taining, Fujian There are journeys that take us from one destination to another, and there are journeys that quietly return us to ourselves. My experience on the bamboo raft along Shangqing
Teaching my course on “Truth and Politics”, I’m struck by how prescient Hannah Arendt was: factual reality is stubborn, but the meaning of facts is endlessly contested. We live inside that contest.
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The Miss Universe Organization was meant to enter a new era in 2024, but instead its leadership has erupted into an international spectacle. Raúl Rocha Cantú, the Mexican businessman who serves as
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The personal care industry has mastered the art of marketing eco-consciousness— evolving beyond familiar labels like “green,” “clean,” and “natural”—into a new wave of sea-inspired branding that claims to champion ocean conservation.
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In early November, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the ‘horrifying crisis in Sudan, which is spiralling out of control’. He urged the warring parties to ‘bring an end to this nightmare of
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On the streets of Tehran, a quiet transformation appears to be taking shape. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, young couples linger in cafés playing Western music, and friends stroll hand-in-hand
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It is with profound sorrow that we mark the passing of our dear friend, Mr. Kathir Ravichandra (Ravi), who left us on the morning of November 11 in Sydney, Australia, after a
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In an unprecedented analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post has uncovered how the world’s most popular AI chatbot has become not just a productivity assistant, but a deeply
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by Luxman Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown is less a straightforward history than a psychological excavation of ambition, insecurity, and legitimacy in Tudor England. Borman, long celebrated for her archival precision and
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by Eric Lauren Johnson’s Margaret Beaufort is both a resurrection and a reckoning. It is a book that dares to reclaim one of English history’s most polarising matriarchs—“the mother of the king’s
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In 1906, archaeologists uncovered a remarkable wig belonging to an Egyptian woman named Merit while excavating her tomb alongside her husband, Kha, in Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes. The wig, made
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Scientists have uncovered the first member of a promising new class of antibiotics, and the discovery came as a surprise. The compound, called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, demonstrates strong activity against drug-resistant bacteria,
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Editor’s Note: The following interview was originally published in The Sunday Island, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. What does it mean to claim that psychoanalysis is inherently feminist? How can the unconscious, that
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A week of brutal sectarian violence in Syria’s southern Sweida province in July effectively ended the presence of Bedouins in most Druze-majority areas, and months later, their path home remains unclear. The
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Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming the company’s GPT-4o model was released before proper safety testing and safeguards were in place. Four of the lawsuits center on ChatGPT’s alleged
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The U.S.-UK technology deal announced in September 2025 promises to accelerate Britain’s AI sector, but critics warn it will happen at the expense of national tech sovereignty. It reflects the steady trend of U.S.
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