Lessons from Dag Hammarskjöld’s Markings for Today’s Leaders: Humility, Vocation, and Integrity in Public Service When Dag Hammarskjöld died in 1961, his reputation was already that of a statesman cut from rare cloth. As Secretary-General of the United Nations during its formative years, he carved out an independent
How a 12th-century dialogue between two great Muslim thinkers continues to shape the region’s choices today. A Debate That Still Resonates In the late eleventh century, the great theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali published Tahāfut al-Falāsifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers). It was a masterful critique of those who, influenced
Peace and the libertarian temperament in an anxious century I was turning the pages of David Boaz’s The Libertarian Mind when a sentence caught like flint: “Libertarians are in fact confident and cosmopolitan… we look forward to a world bound together by free trade, global communications, and cultural exchange.
Poetry
A Romani poet’s fragile liberty, carried into Polish letters—and into our present arguments about memory, dignity, and belonging Bronisława Wajs—known as Papusza (“Doll”)—entered Polish literature from the forest edge. A self-taught singer from a traveling kumpania of the Polska Roma, she would become the first widely
Why the Church’s defense of conscience is the surest ally of a free society—without surrendering a single claim about truth When John Paul II told the United Nations in 1995 that religious freedom is “the cornerstone of the structure of human rights,” he was not indulging a diplomatic
In an era haunted by neo-Marxist revivals, cultural relativism, and spiritual shallowness, a slim Soviet novel offers a tonic of moral clarity. Thunder & whisper Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn thundered. From The Gulag Archipelago to the samizdat cri-de-cœur “Live Not by Lies,” he shattered the Soviet façade with prophetic force. Leonid Borodin—
Alexander Solzhenitsyn remains one of the towering moral witnesses of the twentieth century. A soldier, prisoner, writer, and prophet, he lived through the worst that the totalitarian state could inflict, and yet refused to bow his soul to it. What distinguished him was not only his suffering but the clarity
In an era haunted by neo-Marxist revivals, cultural relativism, and spiritual shallowness, a slim Soviet novel offers a tonic of moral clarity. Thunder & whisper Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn thundered. From The Gulag Archipelago to the samizdat cri-de-cœur “Live Not by Lies,” he shattered the Soviet façade with prophetic force. Leonid Borodin—
Alexander Solzhenitsyn remains one of the towering moral witnesses of the twentieth century. A soldier, prisoner, writer, and prophet, he lived through the worst that the totalitarian state could inflict, and yet refused to bow his soul to it. What distinguished him was not only his suffering but the clarity
Ideas on Politics, Tech, Freedom in a Plural World.
Isaiah Berlin and Leszek Kołakowski offer a blueprint: Only inclusive, pluralist statecraft—not imposed power—can bring Syria back from the brink. The international community must insist on it. Pluralism as the Grammar of Politics If we have to take one critical concept from Isaiah Berlin, it is that societies
From Utopian Fantasies to Modern Egalitarian Rage: Why Mises’s Provocative ‘Fourier Complex’ Still Explains the Psychology of Anticapitalism Depicting Socialism as a Consolation to the Discontented — a “Saving Lie” Against Life’s Disappointments. Introduction Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian economist and classical liberal, coined the term Fourier complex in