China and India are now trying to distance themselves from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, which commenced in February of this year. This is a powerful combination of two countries that have the standing, especially in partnership, to…
Good taste is in free fall. Also in free fall are manners, protocols, and formality. And London’s Savile Row, the Valhalla of all things sartorial, is the latest battleground. Good taste has been in decline for years. The backward baseball…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was deliberate act of provocation whose only justification was hubris and personal vanity. Pelosi knows well the rising anger of the American electorate that has been brought about by many of the current…
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.” – John Adams The Biden administration has mastered sophistry, the use of ostensibly logical but erroneous arguments that are intended to…
“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.” — James Russell Lowell, 1845 As the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on, rocket and artillery barrage after barrage, Russian battalion after battalion, atrocity after atrocity, the civilized…
Founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, Starbucks Corporation has become a beverage and lifestyle behemoth, aspiring to bring the cozy, old-world coffeehouses of Vienna to the United States and elsewhere — and to be woke in the process. According to…
India has thus far not condemned the Russian Federation, nor has it criticized President Vladimir Putin for the barbaric invasion of Ukraine, its sovereign neighbor and former republic of the Soviet Union. Why is India on the sidelines making so…
Shortly after midnight on Sunday, the Parliament of Pakistan voted to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was elected to the office in 2018. Among the domestic factors that led to disaffection with Khan and his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf…
There is only one man on Earth who holds sway over Vladimir Putin, the rogue, isolated president of the Russian Federation who has fractured Europe in a way not seen since Adolf Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, after…
The affinity between the United States and India is frequently cited: both countries have democracy, a western legal system, the English language, and free markets in differing degrees. Nonetheless, these similarities can be largely symbolic when it comes to India’s…