Worlds Apart
When it comes to debates on gender equality, one of the most common arguments you’ll hear is – men have it all, women have less, and what women do have, they’ve had to fight for. But if you look at the data, girls do better than...Oct 24, 2021 06:22- Worlds Apart is a fast-paced, in-depth discussion on the most pressing issues facing the world today.It strives to depart from the traditional Q&A form of interview in favor of a more emotive and engaging conversation. Host Oksana Boyko is not afraid to ask the hard questions that others avoid, with the aim of promoting intelligent public debate.
- Women rise, men fall? Gulden Turktan, founding president of the W20When it comes to debates on gender equality, one of the most common arguments you’ll hear is – men have it all, women have less, and what women do have, they’ve had to fight for. But if you look at the data, girls do better than...Oct 24, 2021 06:22
- Time for Africa? Jewel Howard-Taylor, vice president of LiberiaIt’s been 80 years since philosopher Eric Fromm identified two types of freedom: “freedom from” -– to be no one’s slave – and “freedom to” – to be the master of your own fate. And while we all...Oct 17, 2021 06:55
- Business of all, care of none? Ahmad Wali Massoud, Former Afghan Ambassador to the United KingdomFor decades, Afghanistan has been everybody’s business and no one’s responsibility. Other powers, big and small, pursued their own agendas there, with little regard for the country’s customs or aspirations. But now that the Taliban...Oct 10, 2021 07:15
- Vindicated by reality? Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, former Pakistani ambassador to the USFor most international players, formulating their reaction to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is quite a challenge – too many pros and cons, too tightly intertwined – but there are two notable exceptions: India and Pakistan. While the...Oct 3, 2021 06:53
- Dumb intelligence? Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence ServiceIn the English language, it’s hard to find a more ontologically loaded word than ‘intelligence’. It could mean anything from the divine mind to the human ability to apply knowledge, to information about enemies and the agencies...Sep 26, 2021 07:00
- The worst scenario? Brahma Chellaney, professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy ResearchWhile the Biden administration still insists on painting the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as a success, many of America’s allies are just as bent on seeing it as a total failure. One of them is India, which – after having invested over...Sep 19, 2021 07:19
- Foreordained & forsaken? Mahbouba Seraj, executive director of the Afghan Women Skills Development CenterThere’s a saying in the Koran attributed to the Prophet Mohammed that dreams are three-fold. Sometimes they represent divine guidance, sometimes sorrow from the devil, and sometimes they are about the conflicts of daily living and past events....Sep 12, 2021 06:12
- Progression or regression? Timofei Bordachev, programme director of the Valdai Discussion ClubFor the most part, living in history for people has been a bit like swimming in water for fish – both species are by nature too far-sighted to comprehend what’s immediately in front of them. But recently the speed and the scale of...Sep 5, 2021 06:24
- Expression regression? Jonathan Zimmerman, author of ‘Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn’In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This opening phrase from the gospel of John is often cited by atheists to stress the significance of language in the evolution of the human species. But despite –...Aug 15, 2021 06:48
- Lifeless comfort? Michael Easter, author of ‘The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self’From the early days of culture, humans have known that too much of anything is good for nothing. Every major religion warns against gluttony and other excesses, which poison the soul and enfeeble the body. Fortunately for our ancestors, scarcity...Aug 8, 2021 06:52
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