National identity can drive development, says Fukuyama

The evening's rock star was Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, and the world's foremost thinker on liberal democracy. He was delivering a lecture in the series organised by the Mapungubwe Institute. The auditorium was filled to the ...

This article was written in 2006. KC presents its readers in the reference to the tactics and strategy of the war of the US and its allies with Islam: 1. "Terrorism" is the wrong term to describe the problem we face. Terrorism is a tactic used by ...

Nearly a century ago, Woodrow Wilson, one of the most famous US presidents in American history, signed a historic declaration which saw the United States entering World War I. To mark the occasion, he said: The world must be made safe for democracy.

THE END OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE LAST DEFICIT Denying the deficit is the real logical or philosophical basis of Keynesianism. Negating it one way or another (for example Krugman-style with QE) produces a sort-of nirvana for the philosopher kings ...

Rarely have both parties been as unanimous about a development overseas as they have in their shared enthusiasm for the so-called Arab Spring during the first months of 2011. Republicans vied with the Obama Administration in their zeal for the ...

It has become fanciful for some people to "create" God in their own image and likeness by interpreting the sacred books in accordance with their own feelings. Nuriye Akman is very worried that Islam has carried the label "terrorism" whereas, Islam ...

With Robinson Meyer's massive Twitter rant about "the death of tech blogging," this feels obvious but worth saying: Declaring things dead—long a popular way for writers to draw attention to themselves—is totally, inescapably dead. Friedrich ...

The democratisation of drones has driven a number of amateurs to make their own flying objects often equipped with cameras that create fantastic images but which raise privacy issues. Is more regulation needed for this booming activity? US author ...

"So, generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" Only one in five Indians polled by the World Values Survey in 2006 agreed that most people could be trusted. In fact, ...