HERE'S A REAL LIFE DILEMMA FROM ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, IN WHICH MIGHT DEFINES RIGHT. Last week we suggested that relativism, with its assumption that all perspectives are legitimate, undermines justice in the long run. 'When we can no longer say…
FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS. A POISONED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. GOVERNMENTAL CORRUPTION. We easily associate such news items with former communist countries. What else should we expect after decades of godless philosophy? And yet, those of us in western nations often don't realise how…
HE WAS WAITING FOR ME AT THE END OF THE PLATFORM, AS ARRANGED. A decade had passed since we had seen each other. The passage of time had treated him well, I thought, with only a sprinkling of grey hairs…
AS WE SEND OUT THIS WW, THE UKRAINIAN HIGH COURT IS CONSIDERING THE ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD DURING LAST WEEK'S ELECTIONS. It could be several days before any verdict is announced. Meanwhile, the tension continues on the streets of Kiev where…
REMEMBER THE WOODEN HORSE OF TROY? Ancient Troy, as the current Brad Pitt movie reminds us, was situated in modern Turkey, across from Gallipoli on the Dardanelles (those straits that help link the Aegean Sea with Black Sea). The Greek…
