I’ve often marveled at the ingenuity, the cooperation and the will it has taken to create the European Union, particularly when you consider Europe’s long, contentious history. In many ways, it is an amazing achievement. But this consortium of nations has been racked with problems for the last three years or so, and I imagine many people—or the ones who care—are wondering: “What on Earth is going

I always thought how fun it would be to become the world’s foremost expert on something. I can see the newscast attribution: Dr. Tom Kershaw, leading expert on 10th Century Viking expansion into Eastern Europe.  There I would be, in the middle of some arcane diatribe on Cnut the Great and the population explosion of the Slavs in Kievan Rus’ after 1100. I would probably be quite giddy and

Welcome to part 3 of my little series on freedom as THEE sees it. We started with Individual Freedom, moved on to Freedom in Organizations and now, the big one folks… Freedom in Society! I tend to see freedom in society as a two-part equation, with both parts equally important. We need balance, like in an algebraic expression. On one side, society accounts for the full range of human diversity.