In this wide-ranging account, the economic historian Niall Ferguson sets out to explain the rise of Western civilization, as well as defend its achievements from the enervating effects of multiculturalism, post-modernism and post-colonialism. Ferguson argues that the economic, social and political institutions of the West still provide the best hope for guaranteeing lives which are meaningful and rewarding, and for solving the problems the modern world faces.

Not every claim to a “ right” deserves a hearing. Political Scientist Patrick Keeney looks at the recent UK riots and finds that “rights-talk” without responsibility leads to the morally obtuse—the ones on display on that side of the Atlantic…

Condescension, character assassination and conspiracy theories have dominated the debate over global warming. Maybe it’s time for goodwill in the debate argues Patrick Keeney…

In his new book, Thomas Sowell argues Intellectuals can be bad for society’s health, in part because they are often the most credulous, the most prone to “bad and counterfeit” thinking, and least able to see past the conventional pieties of the age…..