But it is unlikely to impress those who believe in the current orthodoxy of Chinese nationalism.

Ireland is fortunately less worrying, but the odds that the fiscal pact will be approved in a popular referendum are becoming longer. Granted, the removal of the unanimity clause provides a way to avoid this obstacle and allow for the pact s implementation.

The citizens of today s free societies are (almost always) democrats out of conviction, custom, and habit.

The most essential questions that humans face today those that engender the deepest conflicts have nothing to do with theology.