Category: VOLUME V, No.1

Radical evil is the willing embrace of monstrous crimes either for their own sake or to advance a cause that allegedly justifies murder and terror. It should be a rare and almost exotic sin, confined to the poetry of Milton or the novels of Dostoevsky. Yet as several articles in

Churchill is often quoted on democracy as being the least bad of all forms of government. In other words, democracy is bad, but we know nothing better. This is far too general. The death of Socrates offers a fine illustration of how democracy operated in Athens, its famous cradle. He

The theme provides us with a great opportunity to examine how constitutional values have brought our countries to where they are today; and, how those values can take us to where we want to go. In large part, this is a metaphysical topic, as the drafting of a constitution is

On 15 September 2008 the venerable Wall Street bank, Lehman Brothers, collapsed and its remains fell into the hands of Barclays and Nomura. Those who hoped at the time that the collapse would stop the wave of crises could not have been more wrong. Its impact on the US economy

More than 60 years ago the British socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, founder of Britain’s National Health Service, shocked the British political classes by describing Conservatives as “lower than vermin”. Throughout his life, the phrase, for which he refused to apologise, was repeated in virtually every assessment of his career and

What were the effects of the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing economic crisis on Catholic religious leaders. While they are, of course, not the only religious leaders to opine on the crisis, I believe they have been generally representative of religious thinking on the matter. I also conflate

As the mass pro-democracy protests in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, continued into a fourth week, President Viktor Yanukovych’s rapprochment with his Russian counterpart seemed to signal that he had burned his bridges with the West and many believe he wants to turn Ukraine into a Belarus-type autocracy. The demonstrations erupted