The call to be pragmatic is inherently an instruction to give something up — a view, a demand, an ambition. Yet pragmatism is a bit like pornography: self-defined. Take the high-stakes debate over the ...

Z.C. Patten then deflected the personal tributes and instead recognized the quiet man in the audience he deemed most responsible for the Hotel Patten's successful inauguration: George Baker Long.

There was never such a dichotomy and in the 21st century there isn’t such a dichotomy. But a man named Lord Patten still tries to fool us in the Global South that the West wants to save us. Patten ...