Tony Blair’s Labour Party — with its centralizing zeal — passed the Civil Contingencies Act in 2004, granting any British…
Recent breathless headlines of impending recession exposed the “experts” more than the economy. In attempting to see over the economic…
In the European Parliament elections, held last week, parties critical of the direction of the European Union made substantial, but…
UPDATE: My dear editor asked me to add some context to this post. First, the imagery of the beautiful sky,…
The European Parliament is about to vote on contentious new regulations that threaten to reshape how the internet operates. This…
The French scholar Patrice Gueniffey, a specialist in the French Revolution and the leading contemporary authority on the Napoleonic era,…
Later this month will mark the 75th anniversary of the biggest air battle — actually week of air battles — of World War II. Operation Argument, informally known to the flyers who had to execute it and the journalists who wrote about it as Big Week, is not as well-known as other turning point engagements in the war. But it should be.
In the thick of a demonstration in Paris protesting the unfairness of it all, a French professional boxer assaulted a…
Near the close of the last century, as the Soviet Union imploded upon its own weight, dysfunction, and corruption, independent…
