The “Ramadan agreement” that has been in effect since 2010 explicitly offered Muslim professional footballers the opportunity to make up for “the fasting days in the match-free period” so that “faith and profession” could be reconciled without conflict.
Organic association and the principle of subsidiarity are the rescue of nations. They allow for the political articulation of common roots without alienating local cultural differentiation. They also permit overarching identities to be honored along with overlapping ones. Keeping this principle in mind, we may trace the history of relations between Moscow and Kyiv with an eye to how it could have been, and may yet, be applied.
The Spanish will be, along with the Japanese, the only citizens of a large, developed economy who will end 2022 poorer than in 2019. Although Spain’s economic growth rate for 2022 is higher than both the global and Eurozone average, growing more than anyone is not enough, after having fallen further than everyone else.
Terminal care no longer encourages us to balance the pursuit of treatment with emotional and spiritual support. Rather, the conversation turns continually back to, “What do we do next?” as though the body were a computer with a glitch in the programming. No heed is paid to the reality–that the time will come when we do nothing.
“As long as our contemporaries have not been made to understand once again that without saints there are no heroes, we will be condemned to fall.”—Jacques de Guillebon
The youth are mobilising against both Macron and Le Pen. They want to show that democracy is not only played out in the ballot box but also in the street, and that they contest the result of the elections in advance.
Liberal democracy is centered around the idea that a majority vote in parliament should have unrestricted jurisdiction to change society as the majority sees fit. By contrast, Hungary and America have constitutions that protect the country against runaway majorities.
The first generation of human rights promulgation after World War II sought to guarantee freedoms to the individual against the state. Now, we are in a situation where we are suppressing other rights, such as the right to freedom of expression, in the name of the “right to a safe environment.”
Actual usage of the app for reporting and tracking cases was extremely low. Throughout the two years of the pandemic, just over 1% percent of the 11.6 million cases officially diagnosed in Spain were then reported on the application.
The life of the mind is fundamentally dangerous when divorced from the world. Indeed, intellectuals have a moral duty to seek out ways of encountering reality—the thing out there—if they are to avoid becoming a tremendous nuisance to others, a trait so common among their kind.
Édouard Manet’s world-famous “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” is the latest piece of art to receive a ‘woke’ trigger warning for its “unsettling” presence of a male in the painting.
After four years of legal battles, Shawnee University in Ohio has reached a $400,000 settlement with one of its professors, who sued the university after being reprimanded in 2018 for not addressing a transgender student by his preferred pronouns. The teacher, Nicholas Meriwether, had referred to a biologically male student as ‘sir,’ to which the […]
