By William J. Furney In Dubai this week, I encountered two men from Pakistan, one named Muhammad and the other Mohammad, both of them upper-end taxi drivers in an otherwise
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By William J. Furney This Easter Sunday morning on my sweltering hour-plus run along a long stretch of beach by the frenzied Goan town of Candolim, I received several waves
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By William J. Furney In the end, after seven long and isolated years holed up in a tiny embassy of a South American nation in central London, Julian Assange emerged
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By William J. Furney Of all the forms of capital punishment, stoning is surely the most brutal and howlingly grotesque, and picturing in your mind how the long, bloody and
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By William J. Furney Can the ongoing abuses rocking the Catholic Church get any worse, is the centuries-old institution rotten and therefore toxic — and is there really any path
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By William J. Furney When a man becomes a woman, does she lose her undeniable physical prowess? Will she suddenly not be so tall or broad or have so much
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By William J. Furney At the National Art Gallery in Berlin, no one knew anything about Francis Bacon. Not the frazzled women on the ticket desk, nor the attendant they
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By Michel Guilmault As I walked through my French town of Chambery one Saturday afternoon in late January to take part in a demonstration for an action on climate change,
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By William J. Furney Western society has it in for men; there’s little doubt about it, and much of the seething vitriol is driven by male-hating female executives at media
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By William J. Furney Blockchain seems to be everywhere. Almost every time you read a news article, the peculiar term is right there, staring you in the eyes and imploring
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