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Faith and Reason
How a 12th-century dialogue between two great Muslim thinkers continues to shape the regionâs choices today. A Debate That Still Resonates In the late eleventh century, the great theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali published TahÄfut al-FalÄsifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers). It was a masterful critique of
Freedom
Boaz reminds us liberty is not a bunker but a port cityâconfident, cosmopolitan, and outward-facing. Peace, trade, and humility in power are its pillars; connection, not coercion, is its compass.
Poetry
A Romani poetâs fragile liberty, carried into Polish lettersâand into our present arguments about memory, dignity, and belonging BronisĹawa Wajsâknown as Papusza (âDollâ)âentered Polish literature from the forest edge. A self-taught singer from a traveling kumpania of the Polska Roma, she would become the first
Faith and Reason
Catholic teaching defends conscience not as relativism but as libertyâs foundation: truth can only be embraced freely. Liberty makes room for truth; truth gives liberty its purpose.
Conscience
Borodinâs Partings maps not prison camps but the inner gulagâconsciences dulled by compromise, truths traded for comfort. Paired with Solzhenitsynâs thunder, his whisper warns: freedom is lost first in silence.
Moral Courage
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
Foreign Affairs
Isaiah Berlin and Leszek KoĹakowski offer a blueprint: Only inclusive, pluralist statecraftânot imposed powerâcan bring Syria back from the brink. The international community must insist on it.
Freedom
Misesâs provocative concept still helps understand the Psychology of Anticapitalism today