A day or so ago I attended a talk given by David Hart of Liberty Fund about the great French liberal (in the real sense of the word) econom...

Just as the United States re-elected the man who must rank among the most incompetent Presidents in its entire history, the Middle East is s...

Rather than try to work out all the details, known and unknown, of the growing Petraeus scandal, this blog will turn to matters nearer home....

John O'Sullivan in the Spectator discusses Obama's narrow and rather bitter victory and muses about the future. Nothing specific bu...

This is good news, as well. The Synoblog has been back for some time and nobody told me. Boo-hoo! Anyway, I am delighted that the best repo...

Usually I am angry or amused in a bitter sort of fashion or coldly sarcastic. But there is no way of getting past it: I am truly depressed a...

I promise not to write about the American elections throughout Tuesday. No point, really, Over here we shall have no results before Wednesda...