Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.

If you buy something, that ought to mean you can do whatever you like with it - but big companies want to end that right.

The Romans understood nation building, an art we and the British have forgotten.

Everybody ignores the only health care question that matters - how do we limit demand for it?

"It is the duty of every officer of His Majesty's Navy, to discharge powder and shot in the general direction of the enemy."

Americans can show good judgment, and do have a conscience, and are willing to be reasonable - if the other side is being reasonable too.

Brazil serves as an object lesson in how government incompetence - not greed, not really bribery even, certainly not totalitarianism, just simple incompetence - can make life difficult on an otherwise free and vibrant economy.