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Q: As an expert in language, what do you think of Twitter? A: I was pressured into becoming a Twitterer when I wrote an op-ed for The New York...

We think the time has come for the international community to alter its collective climate strategy, cease the search for the impossible all-encompassing top-down agreement — described unattractively as...

Humanity has entered a new era. Our technological prowess has brought humanity to a crossroads. We are the inheritors of two centuries of remarkable waves of technological change: steam...

Today I want to highlight another gift of the Holy Spirit, the gift of knowledge. When we speak of knowledge, we immediately think of the human capacity to learn...

Inclusive capitalism is fundamentally about delivering a basic social contract comprised of relative equality of outcomes; equality of opportunity; and fairness across generations. Different societies will place different weights...

When it comes to jobs, western Canada gets a lot of glowing attention. Much of it is justified. With labour markets operating at or above full employment and in...

Drowning World is my response to climate change and the obsessive consumption that drives it. The flood is an ancient metaphor, with its connotation of water washing away sin....

We have been subjected to years of obesity-related headlines, and the news almost always seems to be discouraging. Obesity has become a public health crisis that gets worse all...

In Greek mythology, sirens were seductive women who sang irresistibly beautiful songs to lure sailors. Unsuspecting seafarers, mesmerized by the music of these femmes fatales, were enticed to sail...

It was startling to hear how often MPs accepted their own helplessness, starting with the prevalence of the outsider narrative that so strongly permeated the MPs’ reflections. Although there...

Because the South China Sea is where the sea lines of communication between the Horn of Africa and the Sea of Japan join together, the state that dominates the...

For the past seventy years, one of the features of the international economic system (which the West benefited from) was continuous access to relatively cheap energy and an unlimited...

L’égalité : une exigence démocratique Miriam Fahmy et Michel Venne La démocratie porte en elle l’idée que tous les humains naissent et demeurent libres et égaux. L’idéal démocratique est...

Governments around the world have made vigorous attempts to train citizens to disdain their own privacy. A litany of now-familiar platitudes has convinced people to tolerate severe encroachments into...

Although inequality of income and wealth in America has been growing steadily for the past forty years, it was with the Wall Street crash of 2007-2008 that this disparity...

To the disappointment of friends who would prefer to read my fiction — as well as of my literary agent, who would prefer to sell it — I seem...

The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is one of the world’s great boulevards. Officially designated a national park, its tree-lined expanse runs from the Lincoln Memorial in the west...

Roy McCoy: Okay, so they tell me you’re a big deal in philosophy, Plato. I’m going to tell you up front — because that’s the kind of guy I...

Ceux qui refusent encore de voir que les inégalités augmentent de façon inquiétante dans nos sociétés ressemblent aux personnes qui nient toujours l’existence d’un réchauffement climatique, notait l’économiste Paul...

“Attention is power,” the fictional cable TV host Roy McCoy tells his studio guest, Greek philosopher Plato, in an interview imagined by writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in her new...