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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Robert S. Mueller III: A Paragon of Justice and Decency
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 22 March 2026 The death of Robert Mueller, sixth director of the US Federal […]
Donald Trump and Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 22 March 2026 There are moments in opera when the boundary between theatre and […]
Brain Fry: The Cognitive Cost of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 22 March 2026 In the early decades of the twenty–first century, one of the […]
Death and Dominion: Mors Imperator in an Age of Strongmen
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 22 March 2026 There are certain works of art that do not belong wholly […]
Friedrich Nietzsche, social media, artificial intelligence and perennial war
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 21 March 2026 The writings of Friedrich Nietzsche are frequently invoked in moments of […]
Anglo-French resolve to interdict Russia’s shadow fleet
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 21 March 2026 The war at sea between Russia and her Western adversaries has […]
Strikes on Iranian and Qatari natural gas fields – the economic consequences
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 21 March 2026 The missile strikes upon Iranian and Qatari natural gas infrastructure in […]
Russia’s reliance on the Yuan
By Matthew Parish Saturday 21 March 2026 The Russian Federation’s financial architecture, once deeply intertwined with Western capital markets and […]
Cuba in the Age of Darkness and Defiance: Blackouts, Sanctions and the Island’s Political Future
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 20 March 2026 Cuba now finds herself not merely in economic difficulty, but in […]
Viktor Orbán: no leverage
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 20 March 2026 The periodic obstruction by Viktor Orbán of European Union financial support […]
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