Hello? Can you hear me? Hello? Of course you can’t hear me. I haven’t raised hell. I haven’t burned down federal buildings. I haven’t pillaged and plundered. I haven’t used physical power to hurt ...

The venerable adage that the pen is mightier than the sword postulates that verbal expression has more influence over people and events than does the use of force. Freedom of speech is a two-edged ...

As we settle into the second Trump era, we’re also seeing the return of the strangest things becoming a controversy thanks to a presidential post on Truth Social. The latest of these is a post ...

Lagos—Writing continues to wield transformative power, participants were told at the 2025 Lagos National Author’s Day, emphasising that the pen remains mightier than the sword in influencing thought, ...

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn't hold in the case of playwright Athol ...

NEW YORK MILLS -- With spring just weeks away, the nation's armchair philosophers are beginning to stir. Hundreds of them, some from every section of the country, are busy putting their thoughts into ...

Books criticizing higher education are not new, but recently both the number of them and the intensity of criticism has been increasing, and a large portion of them are “inside jobs,” written by ...