Business leaders are wrong to claim that they have no role to play in China's human rights record

An eye-witness of the massacre says its malign legacy persists 20 years on

It's fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don't bet on it - still less wish for it

The spread of political 'compassion' has led to the breakdown of family and school discipline. The results have been catastrophic

In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?

A German novelist reflects on his time working at a home for the mentally ill, and the moral dilemmas surrounding euthanasia that have shaped his writing life

‘The decision to ban Wilders was the desperate diktat of ministers who have lost sight of the distinction between arbitrary government and the rule of law’

A new documentary made in Afghanistan has won two awards at the the Sundance Film Festival. Afghan Star could help the cause of feminism there and encourage a desperately-needed sense of national community

Is Pakistani intelligence allowing the country's tribal areas to become a Taliban stronghold? What can the West do about it?

‘While history can tell us a great deal about the evil ideology can wreak, sadly the power of ideology is far from being history’