On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s decade-long experiment with democracy was put on hold as the military seized power. Yet the people of Myanmar, in an extraordinary display of courage, keep pouring on the streets in the hopes of restoring democracy.
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
He is also a best-selling author of over a dozen books, including How...
Throughout her novel, Rooney manages to successfully highlight the many problems that ail our society without feeling compelled to resolve them for the readers. This helps her keep her readers engrossed in the narrative and at the same time imbue them with a sense of agency to assess these problems on their own.
I think what Biden basically concluded, as far as I can tell, is that he doesn't think that US military presence has or can turn Afghanistan into a stable democracy. So therefore you have a choice: you can either stay indefinitely and prop up the government and the security forces or you can leave.
In modern multicultural Britain, there should be no adulation of figures like Rhodes, who orchestrated and oversaw the rise of an empire defined by genocide, racism and suppression.
