Pope Francis’s last sacrifice in a lifetime of sacrifice: granting an audience to JD Vance

John Crace What do Liz Truss and JD Vance have against elderly people? Specifically, those who are kind, decent and compassionate. Take Radon Liz. In September 2022 she made a fleeting visit to Balmoral to be sworn in as prime minister by the queen. The last picture that was taken of Queen Elizabeth was of… Read More Pope Francis’s last sacrifice in a lifetime of sacrifice: granting an audience to JD Vance

The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine

In terms of a population-adjusted equivalence, Gaza has experienced a 9/11-equivalent every five hours, or over four population-adjusted 9/11s every day for the last year and a half. If the US had experienced the same per capita death toll, population-adjusted deaths would number 8,350,000. (This number arrived at by applying Gaza (population 2.2 million death… Read More The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine

Majoritarian buffet

The fact that the Supreme Court is willing to stay crucial parts of the Waqf (Amendment) Act suggests that the judicial deference that Modi government commanded as its due is not readily available Mukul Kesavan The Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 is an exercise in premeditated bad faith. Its main provisions are designed to denotify historical… Read More Majoritarian buffet

Sant Shri Balak Nath, Mahant, Gorakhnath Math, Bhuntar, visited Khudai Khidmatgar / नाथ सम्प्रदाय के संत श्री बालक नाथ १०८  महंत गोरखनाथ मठ, भुंतर हिमांचल प्रदेश पधारे

For Khudai Khidmatgar, the work of communal harmony is not a program based thing, that can be kept aside or forgotten for long after organizing a seminar .For us It is a continuous process, in which training, dialogue, travel, discussion, etc. keep happening as a continuous process. On 13th April Shri Balak Nath 108 Sant… Read More Sant Shri Balak Nath, Mahant, Gorakhnath Math, Bhuntar, visited Khudai Khidmatgar / नाथ सम्प्रदाय के संत श्री बालक नाथ १०८  महंत गोरखनाथ मठ, भुंतर हिमांचल प्रदेश पधारे

The Price of Monotheism

Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion NB: This is one of the most thought-provoking studies in the history and philosophy of religion that – in my limited reading – I have come across. The author Jan Assman (1938-2024) was a German Egyptologist, cultural historian, and religion… Read More The Price of Monotheism

In the Shadow of Catastrophe: An Interview

Apocalyptic thought in the aftermath of the world wars George Prochnik and Anson Rabinbach In what way does writing about catastrophe, either predictively or retrospectively, risk kindling a new blaze? Conversely, is it possible to identify aspects of such texts that work against the drive to catastrophe? Conventional wisdom suggests that temporal distance from historical… Read More In the Shadow of Catastrophe: An Interview

Misusing a judicial observation to unearth temples under mosques will lead to disaster

NB: A citation from Franz Neumann, Behemoth, The Structure and Practice of National Socialism; (1936, repub 1963, p 27). (The counter revolution) ‘…tried many forms and devices, but soon learned that it could come to power only with the help of the state machine and never against it… the Kapp Putsch of 1920 and the… Read More Misusing a judicial observation to unearth temples under mosques will lead to disaster