1. The presidential palace in New Delhi, India at night, July 25, 2009 (Roshan Rao)

    India Pays A High Price For Its Silence on Terror

    The attack on the wife of an Israeli diplomat in the streets of Delhi is the result of India’s pusillanimity.

  1. Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao of China attend a meeting with business leaders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, January 19, 2011

    Western Decline is Not Inevitable

    The West’s self-pity is destroying its chances of being relevant in the multipolar world of the twenty-first century.

  1. Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, prepares a speech at 11 Downing Street in London, June 22, 2010 (Andrew Parsons)

    Britain Needs A Bolder Austerity Agenda For Growth

    For all the talk of “reckless” spending cuts, the British state is still the greatest impediment to job creation.

  1. Protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egypt, February 25, 2011 (Joel Carillet)

    Brain Drain, Soft Power And Orientalist Revolutions

    The Arab spring was neither democratic nor liberal because those values are indigenous only to America and Europe.

  1. Trees near Matamata, Waikato, New Zealand, September 12, 2011 (Cuba Gallery)

    UN Recast Limits to Growth As “Planetary Boundaries”

    There is only so many times you can cry wolf before people start to wonder whether disaster truly looms.