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Gender is more than a word
(5 minute read) Sam Hall points out the inadequacies - and indeed absurdities - of recent debates about what it is to be male or female.
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Spain’s fragile memory
(7 minute read) Maddy Fry finds modern Spain is still tip-toeing around the history of its bloody civil war.
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From Cuba with Love
(4 minute read) Audrey White discovers a new approach to agriculture in the Caribbean which could ‘heal’ the earth.
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One woman’s battle against domestic abuse
(4 minute read) Bridget O’Sullivan speaks to an unlikely heroine who used her own suffering to help others.
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The elderly cure us from our obsession with haste
(5 minute read) “The rhythms of old age are an indispensable resource for grasping the meaning of life”, says Pope Francis.
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Healing wounded hearts
(4 minute read) A better future is possible if we get sex into the right context, argue Karl Gustel Wärnberg and Edmund P Adamus.
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The grace of time: why the young and the old must learn from each other
(5 minute read) “Everything beautiful that a society has is related to the roots of the elderly”, argues Pope Francis.
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Seduced by the glib: the power (and risks) of inspirational quotes …
(7 minute read) Lisa Fraser has come to the conclusion that basing the big decisions of life on ‘inspirational quotes’ is a mug’s game.
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When revolutionary poachers become dictatorial game keepers
(6 minute read) Michael Kirke scours history and finds a sad refrain of revolution gone wrong.
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It’s cool to be Asian, but don’t mention the virus!
(3 minute read) Grace Choi examines the media’s love-hate relationship with East Asian people and culture.
