2018 is an important year for anniversaries. It is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela; the seventieth of the...

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There he is, the President, duality personified: both immovable object and irresistible force, unsmiling with slitty eyes beneath that...

Today is Christmas. And for the next few days or so, all will seem well. The ugliness of the world will recede. Toil and care will be set...

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It tends to be common knowledge that Albert Einstein was bad at school, but less known is that he was also bad in school. Einstein not...