Paul Ryan takes picture with interns on Capitol Hill

Cicero wrote: ‘People think I have lost my senses if I speak on politics as I ought, and a powerless prisoner if I say nothing.’ Nicolas Werth, the great chronicler of Stalin’s murdered millions, achieved by the silent approval of the masses, defined the authorising system of the genocide as being possible due to ‘the…

In ‘Globalia’, Jean-Cristophe Rufin’s dystopian vision of the modern democratic State, he defines our situation thus: ‘Each of us is free to act. Now, the natural tendency of human beings is to abuse their liberty, that is to say, to impinge on that of the others. THE GREATEST MENACE TO LIBERTY IS LIBERTY ITSELF. How…

We are still held back from taking on our full, and as yet unconfronted, responsibilities as Muslims about to introduce Islam into a world at present deeply misled about its nature. Perhaps the major harm and inhibition which prevents the new generation from embracing Islam – and we are referring to the Arab nation in…

Alif Lam Mim Do people imagine that they will be left to say, ‘We have iman,’ and will not be tested? We tested those before them so that Allah would know the truthful and would know the liars. Or do those who do bad actions imagine they can outstrip Us? How bad their judgement is!…

In 1890 on the Oslo stage Hedda Gabler, the beautiful daughter of a cavalry officer, saw no way to the future, and took her father’s pistol and blew her brains out. The judge who had trapped her into a fatal impasse on seeing the dead woman exclaimed these famous words: “Slikt noe gjør man da…