United Nations, born from the ashes of a genocide, is facing its reckoning at the hands of a genocide perpetrated by the very ...
At that critical moment, as our nation was being born, Thomas Paine penned an essay entitled “The Crisis” which famously began: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Times change b ...
Whereas E P Thompson famously vowed to rescue the nascent English working class from the ‘enormous condescension of posterity’, Clark vows cheekily to rescue Paine from posterity’s ‘enormous ...
Donald Trump’s second presidency is best seen as a revolt against elites, a revolt that has succeeded in sidelining ...
And, he goes on, it has historically defined itself against the movements it opposes. One of the most eloquent rejoinders to ...
IN THE history of Bangladesh, November 7th is known as National Revolution and Solidarity Day, and it stands as a testament ...
So said the English pamphleteer Thomas Paine at the start of 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence, the year when the Second Continental Congress adopted a new moniker for the thirteen ...
During these long months, that movement of solidarity with the vulnerable needed a Thomas Paine. “These are the times that try men's souls,” he might have written just before the last year of the ...