Thursday, 25 April , 2024

Civilization

Actor Frank Langella denounces “cancel culture” in response to firing from...

By Nick Barrickman 9 May 2022 Veteran Hollywood and stage actor Frank Langella responded to allegations of “sexual harassment” in a scathing letter published last week...

The degeneration of ecologic protest

Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers By Erik Schreiber, David Walsh 17 October 2022 On Friday, two anti-oil activists threw two cans of tomato...

Phil Hammond – Culture Wars and Wars for Values

Values-driven’ foreign policy is simultaneously a domestic culture war. On both fronts, Western values-talk is past its sell-by date. Phil Hammond is Emeritus Professor for...

UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’ Due to Breaching of Planetary...

By Nafeez Ahmed 26 May 2022 When the United Nations published its 2022 ‘Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction’ (GAR2022) in May, the world’s attention...

Inside The Military-Entertainment Complex

By David Sirota Jun 9, 2022 The military quietly infiltrating a movie studio… the idea might seem like a fantastical plot from a film, but Top...

The War between East and West, the Non-Aligned and the Struggle...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) Second of two parts. Here you can read the first part The War between East and West, the Non-Aligned and the struggle...

France: Former Director of Louvre Charged for Art Trafficking

On Wednesday, the former president and director of the Louvre Museum were prosecuted under the charge of art trafficking. May 26, 2022 Jean-Luc Martinez, former president...

Book Review Mozart’s intriguing if incomplete visage

Bravura surfing of the wave of history omits profound truths, writes JOHN GREEN Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces By Patrick Mackie Granta...

How Russia Made 100 Million People Literate

What changes were made to improve the astonishingly low literacy rates in the USSR? By Ethan Friend Dec 13, 2019 It was vitally important that the Communists...

The reality of looted colonial art and restitution

"A high-priority cultural policy": The German Lost Art Foundation is hosting a conference on looted art and the restitution of colonial objects. Dec 05, 2021 "As...