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.



What’s a Manuel Ferreira? Book Excerpt from The Prison Lady
Phyllis Taylor is the author of The Prison Lady, a memoir of her journey alongside prisoners. The following is an excerpt from her book. By 45, Manny, a great-looking Portuguese career criminal, had spent two dimes (ten year sentences) in the Kingston Pen. He was fond of boasting that

What’s a Manuel Ferreira? Book Excerpt from The Prison Lady
Phyllis Taylor is the author of The Prison Lady, a memoir of her journey alongside prisoners. The following is an excerpt from her book. By 45, Manny, a great-looking Portuguese career criminal, had spent two dimes (ten year sentences) in the Kingston Pen. He was fond of boasting that

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.