
Public Intellectual: Voltaire
Voltaire (1694-1778) is the self-invented name of François-Marie Arouet, riffed on a childhood description of…
Voltaire (1694-1778) is the self-invented name of François-Marie Arouet, riffed on a childhood description of…
U.S. citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi were detained and executed in Chile during the…
Corruption is worse than prostitution; the latter might endanger the morals of an individual. The…
In a court case in Kent recently I detoured to the small village of Down…
Part I of this series examined Mario Draghi’s recent proposals for reforming the E.U.’s economic…
This article is the first in a forthcoming three-part series by Cillian Doyle on the…
It’s hard for those of us who work in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy to…
The ten principles of the U.N. Global Compact, formed in 2000, sought to realign business…
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The anthropologist Jack Goody pours scorn on modern dining habits. Solitary consumption he says reverses…
Paul O’Brien’s biography, Sean O’Casey, Political Activist and Writer (Cork University Press) is a timely…
In the essential Boomer text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance one of the…
this is tropical truth this is celtic truth this is Hy Brasil in the Kerribrasilian…
Deities or daimons held strong associations with the cities of Classical Rome and Greece, projecting…
The life of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, has been celebrated on two primary occasions in…
Winifred Barrington, only daughter of Sir Charles Barrington, led a charmed life – far removed…
‘I have never met a man so in love with the written word – provided…
This is the first of two articles occasioned by the recent publication of Periodicals and…
Don’t you ever read the papers? Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the…
I’m living in cloud cuckoo land And this just feels like Spinning plates Radiohead, Like…