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A large portion of youngsters who aspire to join the civil services are not motivated by the spirit of public service and idealism of which the civil services offer in abundance. When they join the mandarin club they look for the loaves and fishes of office, rather than make a difference and wipe what Mahatma Gandhi called every tear from every Indian, points out Rup Narayan Das.

We now live within the most powerful information distribution and control machine in human history, if only because communications technology is everywhere — all around us, day and night. Its influence begins in public grade schools, years ago designed to produce controlled children who would grow u

It's now possible to understand the cultural phenomenon of summer 2023: the success of an unknown populist musician.

Controversial arms fair Defence and Security Equipment International got under way in London on Tuesday and runs until 15 September.

There comes that day when it is too late to find your public tongue.

WRITING IN 1973 for Art International, Douglas Crimp reviewed Blythe Bohnen at New York’s A.I.R. (Artists in Residence Inc.) Gallery, the landmark women’s cooperative that opened in 1972, of which the artist was a founding member. That same year, she completed her MFA at Hunter College and was included in the “Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Brushstroke,” the near-taxonomic series that Bohnen had started in 1968—and which i...

One gauge of our decline is the vanishing of public intellectuals and a swelling number of wired celebrities, influencers, and pitchmen.

“This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts.” – Euripides, The Phoenician Women

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might