Category: 2025

Dimitri, in Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, affirmed that: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”. The widespread intuition – that God is the moral Governor of the universe – would then have no meaning. There would be no final reckoning against human sinfulness and particularly the actions of despots from Mao Zedong...

Words are powerful. As I write, international relations have been rocked, long standing alliances have been shaken by a few words spoken in a press conference, or written in a ‘group chat’! Yet we can all think of examples of empty words, words which proved to be worthless. The employee who is promised her job...