What is government for? Where does it get its powers? What can’t it do? Such questions are often scorned as “academic” by the brisk pragmatists who rush about the corridors of power concocting hare-brained schemes to offend and annoy the public at great cost. But unless you answer them, correctly, your policies and statements are likely to be terribly confused. Click here to read the rest.
Everyone’s fussing over Generation Y, the 18- to 32-year-old “Millennials,” here in huge numbers and ever so special. But having trouble coping. Poor babies. Click here to read the rest.
In Victorian times they knew what to do when some jungle potentate committed atrocities: Send a gunboat. It worked but, we now realize, was presumptuous, even arrogant. So, in these enlightened multicultural times, we react to Syrian human rights abuses by … um… sending a gunboat. Click here to read the rest.
Here's an amazing number. Over half of children in England and Wales will be born to unmarried mothers by 2016, up from just one in nine in 1979. That's right. The family has gone from bedrock of society to an eccentric arrangement in under two generations. And the most amazing thing is, almost no one is amazed. Click here to read the rest.
How did Egyptians get from celebrating the military departure from politics to celebrating its return in just two years? By not appreciating that self-government in the political sense depends on self-government in the personal sense. Click here to read the rest.