On Tuesday, I watched a video on the deteriorating water situation in the Arabic state of Jordan, which foregrounded to me the imperative, that countries…
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By Kerry Frizelle While I was lecturing, a female student arrived late*. As she made her way to a seat, another student cat-called her (a…
I have written about the position of women in our patriarchal society from various perspectives on this site several times before – in the context…
Copenhagen is a beautiful city. It is also a financial black hole for South Africans. With a currency that is constantly edging lower against international…
Some time ago I wrote a piece on Shoshana Zuboff‘s recently published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and already other signs are beginning to appear…
By Pierre Brouard and Judith Ancer If a young person feels that they are gay, is the priority to work out if they are sure…
On a virtually daily basis, one is confronted with more dreadful news pertaining to the destruction of the world as we know it – or…
The spectre of anti-Semitism is once again stalking us, according to Vivienne Walt (TIME, July 1 2019, p. 33-37). Unbelievable, one might exclaim. Not really,…
From the point of view of complexity theory, or chaos theory, if you like, everything is interconnected. ‘Chaos’ is here regarded as just a very…
Many people — especially those who still read novels — will know George Orwell’s 1984, with its depiction of the brainwashing society of Big Brother,…