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  • Is Europe Fading into Insignificance?

    BY FAHIM MASOUD The world order is changing and global power is shifting to the East.  As China and India continue to rise, many scholars believe that the end of Western hegemony is inevitable. The birth of a new world order, which is manifested through the rise of the East and the decline of the…

  • The October Surprise (!)

    I always like reading Niall Ferguson — the priggish Harvard professor-cum-Newsweek columnist — mostly because I enjoy his contradictory and often incorrect predictions (not to mention his obligatory “I told you so” postscripts). This week he ponders whether the president is attempting to “wag the dog” the week before the election. Through its liberal propaganda…