Temptation and whether you will be able to withstand it? It is what Marie Corelli’s “Sorrows of Satan” is trying to explain through the example of Geoffrey Tempest, an unrecognized author close to starvation who suddenly became a millionaire and earned Prince Lucio Rimânez as his friend, the closest one…

Margaret Thatcher’s “Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World” truly excite with the straightforward word put in each sentence without “blah blah” so common among many politicians of the past and, unfortunately, the present too. …

Aristotle, Sergey Parajanov, Frida Kahlo, Robespierre, Lenin. All of these people knowingly or unknowingly proved the emptiness of any frames. Some through the means of art, some through fraud and the others through deception. These are the people who had a major positive or negative impact on the people, living…

The discourse about the sovereign and sovereignty started from French jurist Jean Bodin in the sixteenth century. Still, the interpretation that Bodin brought in appeared not to be ideal (Schmitt, 1992, p. 17). The problem with the word or concept ’sovereign’ is in its multiple interpretations. Though neither Thomas Hobbes…

Belief in Cryptocurrency in Numbers — There is near-unanimous confidence in cryptocurrencies (97%) amongst users. More than half (52%) do not consider crypto investing as a hobby, but instead as a means of income; for 15% of users, crypto is considered their primary source of income.

Nationalism is complex. The core of it is about liking, having sympathies, caring, being loyal to, and giving preference to your fellow compatriots. It creates a strong feeling of community together with strangers you have never met and, in 99.9% of cases, will probably never meet. It is not about…

Harvard Philosophy Professor Michael Sandel and Hebrew University History Professor Yuval Noah Harari discussed the market economy, tyranny of meritocracy, populist uprising, democracy, nationalism, and nation-states. This article touches upon the premise of British former PM Margaret Thatcher’s and former US President Ronald Reagan’s market faith, its causes, and consequences. …

Long before Armenians would accept Christianity, they were Hellenist. Every phenomenon had its God. Mihr, for example, was the God of Sun and Light. Mihr, with his character, was more like Greek Apollo. He was the son of Aramazd, the father of all Gods. Armazad’s character was like Greek Zeus…

An ugly question, right? This is an excerpt from a conversation in marshrutka (small in size public transport in Armenia). The driver, an old but somewhat kind and very energetic person, said that to one of the passengers of his age. There was a small conversation between these two, mainly…