Kindness isn’t softness — it’s the silent choice to walk into someone else’s storm without asking for shelter yourself. It ...

I always tell the story of a leading academic who was asked whether he would rather teach a Grade 1 class or be a stand-up comedian. He chose to be a stand-up comedian because it was so much easier.

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It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

Kozhikode: Vadakara MP Shafi Parambil on Saturday described MLA Rahul Mamkootathil's resignation as Youth Congress state president as a significant step. Speaking in Kozhikode, Shafi said Mamkootathil ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two ...

On April 13, 1919, colonial soldiers from the 9th Gurkha and 54th Sikhs infantry regiments stood at the entrance of Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar and, on Brigadier-General R. E. H. Dyer’s orders, ...

Rutger Bregman is one of the most refreshing thinkers to have appeared around the time of the global pandemic, when many of us were seeking new approaches to living after the seismic shock of seeing ...

English teachers have criticised the inclusion of an “unwise and unfair” short story question that appeared on this year’s Junior Cycle exam paper this week. Many students reported their surprise at ...

When wrestling with a moral dilemma, a person may reach a decision not only by thinking through the problem but also by tuning into physical signals from their body, a new study suggests. The research ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest and Franciscan friar ...

Over the last decade or so, the 36-year-old Dutch writer and popular historian Rutger Bregman has argued passionately for an optimistic, goal-oriented worldview, one with less cynicism and more ...