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Wouldn’t it be funny if one day, when all our current political concerns have vanished into the mist of time, we are brought back to

گفت آرزو بر نو جوانان عیب نیست! البته جهان بدون جنگ استبعاد عقلی ندارد. علیرغم ادعا های زیادی هم که میشود کسی طبیعت انسان را

پاپ بندیکت شانزدهم (کاردینال راتزینگر سابق) در سخنرانی پارسال خود ( تحت عنوان ایمان، عقل و دانشگاه) در روزنبرگ تلازمی بین دین غیر عقلانی (به

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I had intended to sit this one out.  But the silly, slapstick war over a bunch of inane cartoons (that makes the Salman Rushdie debacle

Abdee Kalantari has posted a public response to me [“Demanding criticism”]. If like Gertrude Stein on her deathbed you are wondering: “but what was the

I am Spring, you the earth, I am Earth, you the tree, I am Tree, you, the Spring — The charm of your rainfall fingers

Looking back at a close election won, lost or stolen by an unlikely candidate one must guard against over rationalizing. On occasions like this pundits

As the velvet revolution of 1989 unrolled in Prague, Czech activists recalled the dark skies of the Spring of 1968. They had jubilantly arrived at

Like the socks you buy on sale, Iranian elections are “irregular.” Fraudulent in the manner of soviet systems or banana republics, they are not .

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This is my third sleepless night in Athens. This is also the second time I am leading a group of American students through 3,000 years

Maturity, ecstasy and death come in quick succession in nature, and sometimes in politics. After years of earnest but incoherent struggle under an unimaginative and