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...and provided us a bit of folly at the end of the night and thus the sanity to face the madness of our political and social worlds the next day. As President Obama told Stewart at the end of his final appearance on the show, You’ve been a great gift to the country. [The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...have enjoyed these stories for the same reason. But the idea of the great hero touches on deeper themes of how individual brilliance can be reconciled with the social good, and these speak to us now just as they did more than two and a half thousand years ago. Find out more about Ancient Greece and heroes View our video on Batman v Superman Transcript More on superheroes...

...socialism and tourism. The news of his death at the age of 90 brings many of these thorny questions to mind. And there are many anecdotes to illustrate them. I would like to draw on one in particular – the case of Jean-Paul Sartre and his observations of the Cuban leader as they toured Cuba in the back of Castro’s car in the spring of 1960. Sartre and Simone de...