Walter Kirn | GQ | 9 April 2012 Mitt Romney does not feel your pain. There again, neither does Barack Obama. But who says voters want familiarity and empathy anyway? It wasn't on offer from FDR or JFK. Truth is, Americans want to salute their leaders, not hug them Comments Robert Zubrin | New Atlantis | 11 April 2012 Remarkable essay on disturbing history and politics of the "population control movement", from US to China. Pseudoscience of Malthus led to billions of ruined lives globally. The lesson? Side with human ingenuity, not antihumanism Comments George Soros | Project Syndicate | 11 April 2012 The euro crisis hasn't gone away. ECB's cheap loans did ward off immediate disaster, but market confidence is waning, along with German enthusiasm for indefinitely expanding the money supply. A change in approach is needed Comments Dave Lee | BBC | 11 April 2012 What does the future hold for Mozilla, the company behind web browser Firefox? It's racked up half a billion users, but its only revenue comes from a sponsorship deal with a major competitor – Google. Can it adapt, and diversify? Comments Tyler Cowen | Jeff Kaufman's Blog | 6 April 2012 Full transcript, just published, of Cowen's conversation with Singer from 2009. Two fine thinkers, in fields of economics and philosophy respectively, tackle charity, development, immigration and morality. Fascinating Comments Hussein Ibish | Now Lebanon | 11 April 2012 Islamists rising to the top in the Arab world speak of freedom, equality, democratic values. At the same time, they insist Islam is the basis for these freedoms. Does this allow for genuine religious freedom? Evidence suggests not Comments | 
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