The period between Christmas and New Year’s Day is traditionally the time to take stock of the year that has just ended while looking ahead ...

As everyone knows by now, the former (and aspiring) prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated earlier today in Rawalpind...

King Carl Gustaf of Sweden gave his annual Christmas address to the nation yesterday. Our Swedish correspondent LN did not have a high opin...

It seems that even the blandishments of the European Union are not enough to persuade the Serbs to give up Kosovo voluntarily. According to ...

When investigating the Islamization of Europe, it’s important to remember a major difference between organized religions in Europe and their...

Finland is an exceptional country. Within living memory it fought successfully to avoid absorption by the USSR, and has a strong sense of na...

I wrote the other day that an investigative journalist in Sweden named Nuri Kino had his doubts that the Swedish police were applying thei...

Merry Christmas, y’all. Steen has been keeping me supplied with seasonal photographs from Denmark. Yesterday he went to a Juleaften (Chris...

Courtesy of Lars Vilks: the Prophet wishes you a Merry Christmas! We now have his greeting in three languages: the title of this post is in ...

When I was in Denmark last spring, I noticed something unusual: Nobody was lecturing me. One of the things an American gets used to in Europ...

A discussion has emerged here in a couple of threads that touches on the sensitive issue of extreme measures as a response to the Great Ji...

After the Madrid bombing in March 2004, it was reported that the Islamic terrorists who carried out the attack did the planning for it in Be...

In a post last week I wrote about game theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and evolutionarily stable strategies as they apply to the struggle a...

This time it’s not a prison convert, though Tony Blair may have felt that way about his time in office towards the end. Mr. Blair has conver...