THE deviser of the electric bell has probably long since gone where all janglings cease, but his alarming contrivance is with us still. The evil that men do lives after them, as even Mark Antony ...

Tsinghua University Professor of Sociology Sun Liping last week launched the WeChat public account “Sun Liping’s Social Observations” (孙立平社会观察). In his first post, he provides an introduction to his ...

The following article was originally published in the July 10 1954 issue of Correspondence in the author's column "Two Worlds: Notes from a Diary. Thanks to Scott McLemee for supplying the article.

There is a place for geopolitical and strategic analysis of Israel’s war with Hamas and its allies and associates—how it affects politics in the Gulf, whether it will reduce American aid to Ukraine, ...

…said Conan the Barbarian, gloomily. *An interesting essay by John Gray. "John Gray is a political philosopher and the author of twenty-six books translated into more than twenty languages. He is an ...

Trying to write a single-volume "history of Europe in our time," Wasserstein admits at the beginning of this massive study, is necessarily a "tilt at the windmill." The result demonstrates the ...

From the first day it appeared online, the masthead of the Climate and Capitalism blog has carried the slogan "Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way". We've been quite clear that ...

Boko Haram is rightly notorious for its barbarism: whole-sale murder of adolescent boys in schools, the kidnapping of hundreds of girls, beheadings, throat-slittings, and stonings all captured on ...

Interestingly, there is often a code of honor among thieves and sometimes among savages. Gavin Newsom cleaned up San Francisco when somebody of equal barbarity and degeneracy came to that city. The ...

Unless you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness (and there seems to be an epidemic of this defect nowadays), it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism. Why barbarism?