Director Ben Lewin, whose latest film The Surrogate was a favourite at this year's Sundance Film Festival. This film was based on a true story about the awakening of Mark O'Brien, a Berkeley-based poet and journalist who spent most of his life in an...
The populations of the big cats of the world is declining at an alarming rate. Just over the last 50 years Africa has lost 90 per cent of its lions. Wildlife expert Ben Britton is a big-cat lover and a passionate conservationist who hosts Nat Geo Wil...
This week in Republican politics, Rick Santorum is surging, running ahead of Mitt Romney in the race for Republican presidential nominee 30% to 28% amongst voters. 这周在共和党的政治选战中,瑞克桑托姆爆发, 在共和党总统候选人竞...
According to Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev the recent protests in Russia have shattered the stability of the regime and have exposed its secret -- that Russia was barely governed at all by Vladimir Putin and that while he may have prevented anyone...
Was Robespierre a great revolutionary martyr or the world's first murderous dictator? Australian author and historian Peter McPhee provides new insights into the man. 罗伯斯皮尔是伟大的革命烈士还是世界上第一个谋杀的独裁者?澳...
The genome era began in 2001, with the successful reading of the three billion letters of DNA that make up the human genome. That triggered frenzied research activity, and high expectations of medical breakthroughs and new understandings of living th...
'On the Move' is an occasional LNL series looking at significant people movements around the world, and what they tell us about a particular region. In this first instalment, we focus on Greece in the European economic crisis. 《在行动》是LNL着重...
Author Jonathan Lear argues in his new book A Case for Irony that no genuinely human life is possible without irony. 作者约翰里尔在他的新书讽刺的案件中争论没有讽刺的人生是不可能的。...
The Clash of Ideas: The ideological battles that made the modern world, and will shape the future, is a collection of essays tracing the great debates that defined the 20th century as they played out in the pages of Foreign Affairs magazine . 在《外...
P. Sainath is an award-winning journalist who spends much of his time reporting on the extent of poverty in India's countryside and on the painful issue of farmer suicides. He talks about, how after 20 years of economic reform in India, inequality ha...