Following two stabbing attacks in London in just over two months carried out by convicts who had been let out of jail early, the question is being raised again of how to make prison more effective in…

Joaquin Phoenix was born as Joaquin Rafael Bottom to John Lee Bottom and Arlyn Bottom in Rio Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 28, 1974. His parents were ardent followers of the…

The ginger-haired Jesus, by Paul Gauguin. As a painter, especially in his early years, Gauguin could be remarkably gauche. Given a different chain of…

The Capital.Robert Menasse. Translated byJamie Bulloch.. Liveright, 2019. 416pp.TheEuropean Unionmay well be the most ambitious and successful experiment in voluntary international…

Abdelmejid Tebboune was born on 17 November 1945, in Mishriah (Naama province), southwest of the Algerian Republic. He graduated from the National School of Administration (Algeria). His…

More than two months into the Lebanon Protests, and after many attempts by Hezbollah to bring back their favorite candidate – Saad Hariri – to form a government, Hezbollah finally decided to take the…

About 25 years ago, I spent a memorable afternoon in London with Michael Young, the author of the strange 1958 dystopian novel in the form of a dissertation calledThe Rise of the Meritocracy, which…

A wave of protests swept acrossIranlast week. The government had abruptly hiked gas prices in order to offset its budget deficit at a time of high inflation and negative economic growth. Angry…

Lionel Messi was born to Jorge Messi and Celia Cuccittini in Rosario, Argentina. His father was a factory steel worker and his mother was employed as a part-time cleaner. Messi started…

Turkish troops invaded northern Syria after President Trump moved U.S. forces out of their way. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he wantsto create a “safe zone”for Syrian refugees - not…