Ordinary people have a right to be deeply uneasy with the outcome in Snyder v. Phelps...That said, I think that the majority of the court is correct, but on narrower grounds than might be commonly supposed...
It would be folly to view recent events in Egypt as merely a failure of police crowd control. It is equally foolhardy to believe pundits and public officials across the political spectrum when they describe the eighteen-day overthrow of the Egyptian government as peaceful...
A wave of democratic euphoria is washing over North Africa and the Middle East. Tyrants are being overthrown and corrupt governments are being replaced. What does the long run hold...?
Niall Ferguson, historian and author of Civilization, tells Robert Miller that the Middle East political unrest could push the price of oil to $200 a barrel...
