Charles Moore reviews An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins (Bantam Press)
Belgium is already known for its very liberal approach to euthanasia in Europe, but the approval of its expansion to include children has been fiercely debated. DW looks at the arguments for and against the law.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
It was two days before my seventeenth birthday, a Saturday morning, the day after a football game in which I’d played. So I was tired and sore, but I could smell breakfast coming from downstairs and somebody was walking up the stairs. I was half asleep. The door opened: it was my girlfriend, I smiled, of course—but from the look on her face I could see that this wasn’t called for. This was a serious moment. I steeled myself.
In letters exchanged from a Russian prison hospital in Siberia, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova discusses the ailments of global capitalism with famed cultural critic and philosopher, Slavoj Zizek.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced in August a new forum supposedly designed to improve communication between the government and the country’s small Palestinian Christian community.The innocuous-sounding intiative, however, has sinister implications.