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I do my PhD research in a shared office on campus and I very seldom see another face. And this is not good because the central task of an academic department is fostering a good research culture and stimulating interdisciplinary conversations. The ot...

The history of warfare has no precedent for what is happening right now in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Never before has a nuclear power plant been on the front line of a major war, and indeed a main object of the warring parties’ strategies. How Russia, U...

“Would that the philosophers were the kings of the earth, or that the kings of the earth were driven by the spirit of a philosopher. When baser things that cause men to rival against one another are caused to be put aside, then and only then will we ...

After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s performance in covering threats to democracy. That certainly was a fair question, since i...

When some of Washington’s leading Black intellectuals gathered near the AME Metropolitan Church in the spring of 1896, they were not in the mood to pull punches. Frankly, they had had enough. And so the members of the Bethel Literary and Historical A...

As the old football saying goes, it’s the hope that kills you. Fans of Manchester United may have briefly wished that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, might actually have been serious when he tweeted he was buying the storied but stumbling English...

It is increasingly obvious that whoever is running the One Bermuda Alliance has decided to minimalise the amount of time that Cole Simons is allowed to get in front of a camera, speak in Parliament and put out press statements in his name. Undeniably...

A Colombian family hoping to visit Disney World right now may have to wait more than two years to get their visas. The same goes for a Nigerian investor looking to close a funding round in Silicon Valley. Around the world, delays in visa processing a...

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” — Proverbs 29:18 Bermuda, what else needs to occur before David Burt’s leadership is declared an official national disaster? He has presided over blunders and failures that have cost the country a...

When you study the speaking style of Liz Cheney — the unwavering tone of voice even as she is delivering dire warnings about the precariousness of American democracy, the slight forward tilt of her head as she fixes a listener with her gaze, the unhu...