BERKELEY – Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as the British prime minister who, as an avatar of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1930’s, helped to usher Europe into World War II. But, earlier in that fateful decade, relatively soon after the start of the Great Depression, the British economy was rapidly returning to its previous level of output, thanks to Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain’s reliance on fiscal stimulus to restore the price level to...

CAIRO – “Whatever the majority in the People’s Assembly, they are very welcome, because they won’t have the ability to impose anything that the people don’t want.” Thus declared General Mukhtar al-Mulla, a member of Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).

Sooner or later, everybody who has worked with the 'Cyprus question' becomes tired of it.

When the writer, polemicists and atheist scourge of polite society, Christopher Hitchens, died last December, it provided an opportunity, as part of the usual obituaries, tributes and anecdotes, to replay a debate, held the previous year, in which Hitchens argued whether or not religion was a force for good in the world, with Tony Blair.