To start with an anecdote of my personal intellectual history, I have to recall reading The Gulag Archipelago as a youth. There were two things that impressed me about this work although I later came to view much of the author’s assertions to be questionable and distorted. However, if one reads the entirety of Solzhenitsyn as […]
It's time, says Aditya A, to crack down on graduate visas to Indian students not at the top universities. "Allowing them to come even though they take Mickey Mouse degrees and are not here to study anyway is perilous."
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Imagine if you and others in your group are paid a flat rate, and the members of a different group are paid the same flat rate. The employer proclaims it is equal pay. But wait a minute! Your group works a 5-hour shift while the other group works a 3-hour shift for the same pay. […]
Following the conviction of journalist Peter Wilby on child pornography offences, Guy de la Bédoyère recalls the time as a 14 year-old he was sexually assaulted by BBC broadcaster Derek Cooper on a sleeper train.
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This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts. – Euripides, The Phoenician Women, 410 BCE Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang. Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some […]
The mass media is reluctant to recognize civic heroes unless they display physical bravery such as rushing into a burning building to save a child. The media also lavishes vast coverage on sports heroes and entertainers. Unnoticed by the mass media was how it came about that the Illinois legislature, overcome by corporate lobbyists, passed legislation allowing […]
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I’m back!!! It’s been a long time since I last edited submissions. Having suffered what was described as “a major heart attack” on December 12, followed by several weeks in hospital, and recuperation at home, I feel confident that I can put my cardiac adventure behind me and carry on — a little more cautious, […]
Sweden, an EU member, handled Covid much better than Britain, outside the EU. But that doesn't mean Brexit was fruitless, argues Jon Dobinson, on the seventh anniversary of the historic vote.
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For thirty years I have taken my father’s name in the vain hope that some of his exquisite writing and character would be recognized through his son’s hand. When he died in 1993, I was devastated. I was the middle child squeezed between seven sisters. As the only son, my father and I had a […]
