“Holocaust” means sacrifice by fire, but when we use this Greek word today it is to refer to what is also called the shoah, the genocide of some 6 million Jews, exterminated with perhaps 5 million members of other undesirable groups, by Hitler’s Nazi ...

Today's Big Idea could not be bigger. It's the universe, or rather how human beings have struggled to understand the physical universe and our place in it. To the earliest humans, as to us, the sky must have presented both a spectacle and an enigma. W...

According to the Basic Law, Hong Kong is a bilingual territory, with English and Chinese official languages and of equal status. It is rather doubtful, however, that Hong Kong is a bilingual society. When we speak of bilingualism, we are usually assum...

The Jesuit order, or Society of Jesus, is a congregation of the Catholic Church with a history stretching back to the sixteenth century. The Jesuit order played an important part in the spreading of the Catholic faith beyond the borders of Europe, es...

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Music is a lot easier to enjoy than to talk ab...

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In the first five years of the decade of the 1...

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Lu Xun was the single most celebrated writer ...

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Genomics is one of those subjects most of us ...

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Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Hu...