Vlad Shapran

Abandon Excuses — Choose Humanity. I think a lot about humanity. Looking around, I ask myself how I take part in it — how I...

“No man is an island.” How often, in the rush of errands and feeds and obligations, do we stop to measure what it...

How retreating American leadership, opportunist autocrats, and our own indifference invite a darker world. Something important has been lost—not a single law or...

Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr. After the second world war the...

Development of Democracy in the Modern World Democracy has long been acclaimed as the government of the people, by the people, for the...

“Time is the most valuable thing a person can spend.” —Theophrastus. This ancient Greek wisdom reminds us that time, once gone, can never...

To be or not to be? That is the question—and it has never felt more urgent. The destruction of the rules that once held the...

I watch the world around me and wonder: where did Radical Responsibility go? It feels as though we’re no longer solving problems—we’re creating new ones,...

Lessons from Isobel. Sometimes a chance meeting and conversation teaches more than any textbook. I met Isobel once, and talking with her about the simple...

I remember the moment clearly: the TV screen was filled with images of terrified families fleeing bombed-out buildings. A journalist asked the anchor, “What can...