On holy war, apostasy, and the rights of women in Islam.

Kazakhstan’s negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) will have far-reaching consequences for its future economic and political development—the reforms demanded by WTO membership will determine whether the country moves along a path of market-based development or remains mired in dysfunctional command-and-control policies and institutions. WTO membership and the...

It is almost half a century since the great and the good of the postwar Western world forged a new economic order, based on the belief that a regime of liberalized trade would increase human welfare. 

As the West’s long battle with Soviet Communism draws to a close, practical men in America and elsewhere ponder a novel question: how to bring forth a lawful, prosperous, and secure order from the rubble of the former Soviet Union.

Review of Troubled Tiger by Mark Clifford.

The internal condition of Russia has changed immensely for the better, and is continuing to change, though progress has not occurred as fast or as decisively as the Romantics had hoped.

Thoughts on the O.J. Simpson trial.