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I CANNOT ENVISAGE a more conducive way of grasping the essence of globalisation and the post-colonial than to sit...

By Roger Trowbridge

PERHAPS I SHOULD have seen a portent in the entrails, but I could divine only horror from the scene....

By Phil Brown

The world's failure to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest scandals of our times. The global...

By Bill Bowtell

WE ARE IN an era in which the governments or cultural authorities (elected or self-appointed) are engaged in defining...

By Geremie Barmé

I wish to put a series of propositions about the rise of fundamentalisms – Islamic, Christian and Jewish –...

By John Carroll

JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE very aware of their densely layered past and how much of it informs the present, so...

In Western discourse, fundamentalism is usually assumed to be a bad thing. This may be unhelpful and limit our...

By Wayne Hudson

MOST WAR MEMORIALS are made from stone. This one is made from paper: ten original sketches drawn in ink,...

By Rachel Buchanan

Even if it be better for certain individuals to govern, they should be made only guardians and ministers of...

By Chas Savage

What I am now is an interesting deformity. I am not Asian and never will be. Even if I...

By Jane Camens

I WOULD NOT call Pasay a slum. Calling or not calling Pasay City a slum would assume the ability...

Veritee watches the familiar sight of one or other of her parents' backs as it disappears. Separately or together....

By Natalie Scott