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This is also very true about the destiny of a country. The menace of everything-goes-ethical philosophy on Nigeria's socio-cultural fabrics is subtly inventing negative trends, knowledge, and influence. It will soon become a tradition.

The social fabric of our nation Nigeria is awash with ripples of likes and dislikes, commendations and condemnations, silence and outburst over the “Best Dressed Female” award at the premiere of Eniola Ajao’s Ajakaju film.   While everybody is entitled to his or her opinion, the critical questions begging for answers include: what is the colour of our national conscience? Does Nigeria as an African nation hold certain ethics as ground norms? Are there consequences for ‘everything goes�...

Questioning the climate-change narrative is now the ultimate form of heresy.

An excerpt from ‘Learning to Live with the Past’, by Krishna Kumar.

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Ian Hacking, RIP. Our academic professional societies do an absolutely abysmal job of informing their members of their colleagues’ deaths. Death notices and obituaries typically appear in these organizations’ bulletins months or even years after a scholar’s death. Members of the Organization of American Historians must pay extra to subscribe to a publication that lists deaths. You might think that historians, of all people, would do more to remember their parting.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2011/07/20/the-fading-shadow-of-the-habsburgs/ The American Interest Some thoughts on the Austro-Hungarian empire’s legacy on the occasion of the passing of Otto von Habsburg. For centuries the Habsburgs cast a gigantic shadow over a large part of Europe. Their empire ended cataclysmically in 1918. The shadow lingered for some decades after that, slowly fading under the blows of later cataclysms. Perhaps the time has now arrived when the shadow will disap...