Big Ideas
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.
Ivan Baidak: Moving from Self-Inflicted Invisibility to Visibility
By Diane Bracuk (In)visible— An (in) sider’s look at living with visible disabilities by award-winning Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak. A year ago, many people would have been hard pressed to find Ukraine on a map. Now with the Russian invasion, the country and its people have become highly visible to
Ivan Baidak: Moving from Self-Inflicted Invisibility to Visibility
By Diane Bracuk (In)visible— An (in) sider’s look at living with visible disabilities by award-winning Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak. A year ago, many people would have been hard pressed to find Ukraine on a map. Now with the Russian invasion, the country and its people have become highly visible to
My Father, Part Three
(George F. Walker, one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights, pens an elegy to his father in seven parts. Esoterica will syndicate one part
My Father, Part Two
(George F. Walker, one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights, pens an elegy to his father in seven parts. Esoterica will syndicate one part
My Father, Part One
George F. walker, one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights, pens an elegy to his father in seven parts. Esoterica will syndicate one part
Tarot and Talk Therapy
By Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Most of us are eager for information that reveals a hidden truth, or a solution to a seemingly intractable problem. Talk
The World is Struggling to Manage its Aging Population
By Bernd Debusmann Call it baby bust and oldster boom — two trends that signal a demographic transformation without precedent in human history. In much
Goodbye American Democracy, Hello Civil War?
By Bernd Debusmann, “The United States is coming to an end. The question is how.” That is the opening line in a book entitled “The
Tea and Sympathy and Lies
By Edward M. Cohen In 1953, “Tea and Sympathy” opened on Broadway to raves and controversy, mainly because it tackled a taboo subject, homosexuality. But
That Quote Has a Ring To It …
By Robert Basler, On June 4,1989, the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was in the Reuters office in Beijing, taking notes from our
A Very Kurt Conversation
By Robert Basler, “Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.