It has become fashionable to give name to the cultural age in which we currently find ourselves.

Based on his book  "The Politics of Hope",  Rabbi Sacks analyses the rise in the 'politics of anger' in the West today and explores whether it might be possible to create a different kind of politics: the 'politics of hope'.

Why have so many people found in identity politics the very center of their political being?

The Rohingya persecution in Myanmar (Burma) is a complex religious liberty issue that challenges the way we often think.

Zimbabweans have earnestly looked forward to Robert Mugabe's death, that apparently being the only way to be free of his tyrannical regime.

On the literary works of Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The vague terms that populate our political discourse encourage lazy and often deeply biased thinking.

It was not the West's proudest moment when President Roosevelt complained to Stalin at the Yalta Conference that "Poland has been a source of trouble for over five hundred years."

In the margin of a public speaker's manuscript was the notation: "Weak point. Shout."

From the first time I saw Mr. Obama, his First Inaugural, I said to myself, "This is a classical tyrant."