It turns out that the Republic is alive and well. The first quarter of 2017 has brought a pleasant surprise: in vivid contrast to...

Based on external appearances alone, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems like an amiable sort, the kind (to paraphrase Margaret...

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world -- but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so...

For a moment, he soared. On rhetorical wings crafted from feathers provided by daughter Ivanka and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon,...

“To be on the wire is life; the rest is waiting,” intones the fictional Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse’s underrated film ‘All That Jazz.” It’s a...

“Blitzkrieg” first exploded into the global lexicon in 1939/40 as Nazi Germany’s forces stormed across western Europe with all the...

It’s always dangerous, not to mention presumptuous, to try and armchair analyze someone whom one has never met or known personally, much...

Donald Trump’s election as America’s forty-fifth President, has met with little tangible comment from China’s leaders. Well, little...

Like all old places steeped in death and history, Bukit Brown, the old Chinese cemetery, is filled with an aura of profound, dilapidated...

The Republic has fallen. Donald Trump, regarded by many progressives as the Dark Lord incarnate, has stormed the White House. His legions...

To anyone unfamiliar with the story of artist Ai Weiwei the initial few minutes of this documentary will be confusing. However, patient...

If Fidel Castro hadn’t existed, his friend and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez would have had to invent him. Castro sprang from the great...

After eighteen months of personal attacks, invective, distortions of the truth and outright lies, the dispiriting 2016 US presidential...

At long last, it seems, the 2016 presidential election cycle is coming to its natural end. Rivers of words, forests of newsprint, and...

In this age of instant celebrity the coverage accorded to successful politicians is akin to that given to denizens of the entertainment...

Heroism is essential to politics. We live for the moment when someone stands up in Teddy Roosevelt’s proverbial dusty arena and we...