Recent weeks have told us more than we wanted to know about ourselves and about our enemies...

It's a mad world...

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gave a generally vapid talk at the United Nations, intimating but rarely naming names of those he deemed guilty...

At the end of August each year, many leading European scholars, businesspeople, policymakers and even some graduate students come to the small Austrian village of Alpbach, arguably one of the most scenic on the planet, to discuss the state and future of the world economy and what should be done...