The medium of film has the potential to not only to move audiences emotionally, but to speak to fundamentals in the human condition so that ...

During times of global peace, it is easy to suppose that increased economic interdependency between countries reduce the likelihood of war d...

On 1 June, 2026, the E.U.’s two legislative chambers agreed informally on text for a law called Return Regulation, which is oriented to faci...

An organizational policy, whether in an educational, religious, or business organization, is not law . Accordingly, “police tactics” are ina...

As evinced by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney likening a planned referendum on whether Alberta should vote to separate from the rest of ...

To be a neutral arbitrator of a conflict between two other countries, a government cannot favor one of the two; otherwise, the veneer of neu...

Speaking on his first “social” encyclical, Pope Leo said the Roman Catholic Church, whose membership stood at 1.6 billion embodied souls aro...

Sometimes it pays to go behind a piece of writing to conduct a genealogy of the writer himself or herself, rather than to dive into the writ...

The Terra dei Fuochi, or “land of fires,” is a region in southern Italy where “decades of illegal dumping, burying and burning of waste” had...

A sadist is a person who feels pleasure in inflicting emotional and physical pain on another person. For the sadistic personality, the emoti...

Should the E.U. appoint and send an envoy to Russia in spite of the fact that E.U. and state officials are not of one mind on a strategy to ...

According to Rousseau, we are born free but we live out our life in chains. Although some people subvert background context and foreground p...

The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Marty Makary, “resigned” in May, 2026 even though the decision had been made by U.S. Health an...

Visuals are an important ingredient in consumer marketing, so it is surprising to come across retail managers who are so purblind as concern...

Human rights are typically thought of as applying to individuals, even to groups, but do national-ethnic human rights exist? Do nations havi...