Archived publication for March 2008
Recent publications
Preparing for the baby cull
Global warming is bringing out the usual suspects who will use any alleged threat to humanity's existence to argue that the world would be a better place with less humans living on it. Having a degree in any branch of science seems to especially...
20 years reveals gigantic strides in international trade
The politics of trade policy often obscures what should be an unambiguously positive story about the globalisation of the world economy. Goods which were previously produced on a single site are now produced in a virtual international factory-each...
The world is getting better
Young governments are like young children
Cops and ravers
Europe's philosophy of failure
In defence of David Cameron
The Stalin enigma
John Roskam reviews Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War and George Kennan: A Study of Character.
Ilf and Petrov's excellent adventure
Chris Berg reviews Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip. In 1931, some 10,000 American tourists travelled to the Soviet Union in order to see what the great Soviet Experiment could offer their depression ravaged country. But the tourist traffic...
Intolerance as ideology
Richard Allsop reviews Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness.