These ideas trace back to the Stoics, such as Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, who preached the sovereignty of the individual mind over external coercion. Epictetus's definition of freedom as "the right ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom represents a population of 40 million. The State's residents are a miniscule 0.4 percent of the 8 billion on this planet, but he has California acting as an ...
Joanne Nova wrote The Skeptics Handbook, 160,000 copies of which have been distributed in four nations and translated by volunteers into six languages. She's a freelance writer, blogger and also an ...
In doing so, Israel has played an increasingly destructive role in Syria, where Hezbollah targets and Iranian supply lines have been struck with regularity. The move is intended to cripple Teheran's ...
Putin accuses Ukraine of Nazism and its government of being Nazis. Yet it is Putin's government that has close links with the European extreme right and supports the fascist MAGA movement led by ...
Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP is a Dominican friar of the English Province, and international leader of the Order from 1992 to 2001. His published writings include Sing a New Song: The Christian Vocation.
Michael Lardelli is Senior Lecturer in Genetics at The University of Adelaide. Since 2004 he has been an activist for spreading awareness on the impact of energy decline resulting from oil depletion.
Ken Calvert is a retired waste treatments chemist/engineer and has spent most of his working life in the third world, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, and mainly with coffee processing. For every ...