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Even in normal times it is not easy for outsiders to understand American politics, even outsiders who live in democracies....

Back on May 16 I wrote here about the “good news from North Africa.” My main point was that, despite...

A spectre is about to haunt the Near East, the spectre of deepfakery. Deepfakery is the ability to deploy a...

A Bulgarian friend of mine told me a story recently that bears very much on many of the misanthropies lately...

If you ask a typical American adult to describe what’s wrong with American politics in just one word, a large...

Adam Garfinkle Within a very short space of time as historical moments go, most of the...

With the Ministry of Education's announcement establishing a curriculum for teaching philosophy and critical thinking, a long sojourn of institutional...

In certain circles, it is still believed that teaching philosophy to madrasa students would corrupt and distort their minds by...

by Adam Garfinkle   It is a truism to claim that the world is changing, but it is not a...

Americans of a certain age and educational level, assuming an interest, can know at least a little about how Middle...

H ere in the United States we are just past Christmas. In my suburban Washington neighborhood of Wheaton, most houses...