A set-to between Jon Chait and Rand Paul has an important moral. Democrats should get over their fear of limited government, and libertarians should get over their fear of democracy.
Category: Ideas
The politics of science and scaremongering
The anti-science position on GMOs has been taking a battering on the left, but no-one on the right seems willing to stand up to its anti-science brigade on climate change.
Do teenagers count as people?
The New South Wales government plans to (yet again) treat young people as second-class citizens, this time with high-frequency sound that the rest of us are too old to notice.
The world digs deeper into Syria
Syria descends further down the spiral of intervention and escalation. But there's no going back to the era of Mid-East autocrats.
War is over, if you want it
Obama's attempt to explain and justify his war policy turns out to comprehensively undermine the conceptual framework that his administration inherited.
Mr Cameron and the swivel-eyed loons
The British prime minister faces a two-pronged revolt by the Conservative masses, but it's not yet big enough to split his party.
Two concepts of racism
An interesting perspective on racism, and particularly on anti-Muslim feeling in Europe.
Hawking, boycotts and the settlements
Physicist Stephen Hawking has decided not to go to a conference in Israel. The Israelis think they're being unfairly picked on.
Not all religion is fundamentalist
An exciting and uplifting story about the rescue of the treasures of Timbuktu (yes, it's a real place). But there's also a moral to it.
Fundamentalism east and west
An anti-blasphemy demonstration in Bangladesh raises some questions about our perceptions of religious fundamentalism.
The World is Not Enough 