When we learn that “happiness can’t be taken by the world because it wasn’t given by the world,” we can laugh at the vanities and absurdities that might otherwise drive us to despair. And we can ...

Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race satyam the true shivam the god sundaram the beautiful Nationalism in India has roused the creative faculties which for centuries had bee ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

Pope Leo XIV deplored the use of hunger as a “weapon of war” in a message to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization ...

Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were ...

Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were ...

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Jocelyne Lloyd is the managing editor of The Guardian. She lives in Charlottetown.

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This lucid memoir originated from a journal that Ali kept while fasting during one Ramadan, and it retains the intimacy of that private beginning while evolving into a resonant meditation on hunger ..

The latest Hunger Games prequel is set 24 years before the events of the first book, with author Suzanne Collins citing Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as one of her main inspirations.