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There are two fashionable ways to misunderstand Western civilization. The first is the progressive habit of treating the West as little more than a crime scene: conquest, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, exploitation, and inherited injustice. The second is the conservative habit of replying that the West is, at root, a biblical or Judeo-Christian civilization whose highest achievements flow from revelation. These two accounts appear to be enemies, but they share one fatal as

The most dangerous fraud in modern politics is not old colonialism. Old colonialism is gone, and the British Empire is no longer in a position to rule anyone. The more urgent danger is the anti-colonial fraud: the use of historical resentment to attack law, liberty, commerce, institutional continuity, and the remnants of civilized order. This fraud presents itself as liberation from empire, but in practice it often becomes the moral disguise of local tyranny. The postcolonial

The controversy over the Delhi Gymkhana Club is being discussed as a dispute over land, mismanagement, subsidy, colonial legacy, and public purpose. Some of those questions are real and deserve legal scrutiny. If a club has violated the terms of its lease, the matter must be examined under law. If its internal governance has been improper, its members and managers should be held accountable through proper procedure. But the public debate around the club has moved far beyond t

Donald Trump says America’s Taiwan policy has not changed. In one narrow diplomatic sense, perhaps that is true. But foreign policy is not made by formulas alone; it is made by signals, emphases, hesitations, omissions, and moral commitments. When the president of the United States discusses Taiwan’s defense with Xi Jinping, refuses to commit clearly to arms sales, and speaks as if Taiwan’s survival were merely another item in a negotiation with Beijing, the words matter. Pol

The American constitutional framework is built on a delicate balance between protecting individual liberties and preserving the sovereign...

Israel is a nation that has been at war with Islamic fundamentalism through most of its existence. It has never initiated a war and acts...

A free state, which is to say an individual rights respecting state, has jurisdictional authority only. A free state is not a private...

I shall begin at the beginning. Assume that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is true. Assume, also, that CO2 emissions from...

I have witnessed the sad events in Canada over the past few weeks through electronic media. I was reminded of the tremendous gulf between...

Baba Ramdev, via his propaganda mouth-piece Patanjali, has been running a vicious ad campaign against multi-national corporations (MNCs)...

If I told you that tomorrow promises to be a hot, hot day with temperatures soaring above 41 degrees Celsius, & that you ought not to...

The United States is the preeminent military power in the world. As the freest country in the Western world, it is also a beacon of...

A complete philosophy, even a false one, is categorised into the following branches – Metaphysics – This branch deals with the nature of...

An appropriate gem of a book by, one, Dr. Peter Singer, a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University is indicative of the fundamental...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Marriage as, "the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a...

President Obama has hailed the repeal of the recent military ban on gays by terming ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ as discriminatory. States...

No, the military ban on gays is not unconstitutional. Should there be a military ban on gays? This is a question for military science....