In grammar, we learn about the past, present, and future tenses from an early age. This shapes our understanding of time as a one-way arrow. Eggs break, but don’t un-break; we grow older, but never ...

In “The Rupture Tense,” Jenny Xie looks at silence surrounding the Cultural Revolution and explores its lasting impact on her own family. By Srikanth Reddy When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

There is a famous quote from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, that goes, “those who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future.” This process is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. President of Man Group, writing on finance and hedge funds. “What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare said in The Tempest. By this, I ...

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