Author: gilgamesh

Ayn Rand is one of the most influential political and social thinkers and writers, at least among the elite circles of political and economic power in the US, of the whole twentienth century. Yet, at the same time, she is...

cross-posted at New International Times It might just be the result of a media class dominated by pseudo-intellectual journalists or, more likely, it could simply be an effect of the fact that human beings tend to speak and...

Nicholas Kristoff is doing a magnificent series of articles on  the absolutely repugnant story of a Pakistani woman from the “wild west” area of Baluchistan who was raped by an Army Captain and then, after...

While the horrors in Iraq and London have been (rightly) receiving a tremendous amount of attention and moral indignation from the progressive blogophere, I thought it might be important not to forget that there are other...

[From the diaries by susanhu.] According to the Italian newspaper L’Unita, France has decided to temporarily suspend its adherence to the Schengen agreement. The Schengen and Dublin agreements are legal accords adopted by...