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Is Taylor Swift Really as Great as Shakespeare?*
To those who pay attention to the zeitgeist, Taylor Swift is the defining person of the century, not so much an ech…
The Unseriousness of Young Revolutionaries
Forget everything you think you know about revolution. The old model with stern-faced guards, manifestos and unifor…
FO° Talks: Bolivia Heads to Presidential Runoff as Voters End Two Decades of Left-Wing Politics
[This video was recorded in the days preceding the second round of Bolivia’s election. This write-up has been updat…
After Years of Occupation: Was October 7 A Disastrous Blunder?
On October 7 , 2023, Hamas’s armed wing launched the unprecedented Al-Aqsa Flood attack against Israel — a shock of…
FO° Talks: Pashtuns vs Punjabis: The Ethnic Rift Fueling Clashes Between Pakistan and Afghanistan
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Professor Thomas Barfield explore the sudden collapse of Pakistan’s long alliance wi…
Cheney, Trump and Billionaires Define Our Post-Ethics Era
A YouTube video dating from last January bears the title, “Will Trump’s billionaire brigade run America like a tec…
FO° Talks: The Gaza Peace Deal Remains Shaky as Hamas Carries Out Public Executions
Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with Abdullah O Hayek, an independent Middle East analyst…
