Nobody seems to know exactly how fast France, the cultural heartland of the West over the past millennium, is being demographically transformed. But I have found a way to estimate ...
The question of whether Britain should be in or out of the European Union might seem like a complex technical matter upon which people of goodwill might differ. But nationalism ...
I haven"t actually made up my mind about this whole Brexit thing. The British will vote in a referendum on whether to leave the European Union on June 23, but the debate has ...
Perhaps it’s the sadistic caveman in me, but I have a lifelong love for the “sweet science” of boxing. I especially love watching unstoppable knockout artists ...
Poland has been showered with what seems like excessive and surprisingly negative media attention of late. True, the Poles elected a new president in the summer, and a new ...
I hope the Cologne mass sexual assaults will be of lasting and huge significance to European history, and I even think they might. (Recently arrived Arab migrants sexually ...
Credit where credit is due: President Hollande"who until then had never seemed à la hauteur, as the French say, of his exalted position, appearing more like the deputy head ...
French history is currently speeding up, which ought to be of intense interest to American Republicans pondering whom to nominate in 2016. While many Americans enjoy engaging in ...
"This refugee flow has outraged the right wing," Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, explained in an interview with The New York Times. "If you ...
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union was drafted in 2000 and came into force in 2009 when the European Union countries signed the Treaty of Lisbon. The aim of ...
However the Greek crisis ends, whether with Athens leaving the eurozone, or submitting and accepting austerity at the dictates of its creditors, the European Union appears headed ...
As the general election in the United Kingdom approaches, the British people are terrified, with polls indicating a hung-parliament, or a government whose fate lies cradled in the ...
Another week, another mass drowning of miserable people, another ostentatious lamentation from politicians and pontificators, all the way up to The Pontiff himself. As the author ...
We shouldn"t be irritated when politicians utter absurdities " they are only doing their job, after all " but nevertheless we are irritated. Unfortunately, different ...
And lo, the Lord did smite the followers of Baal and do unpleasant things to the worshippers of false idols and crass ideas. And face it, few belief systems come more stupid than ...
I was in New York when Lehman Brothers collapsed, in Dubai when property lost half its value in a few days, and in Dublin recently when there was a demonstration against the ...