Why Should I Buy Health Insurance?
Europe has answered that question to its own satisfaction with a mandatory system that treats health care as a social insurance handled by private firms.
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The Swiss and Their Guns
The relationship may be changing in Europe’s best-armed nation, which next month votes on how to store guns for its standing militia.
Combining Heat and Power
An old American idea to capture and use waste heat from electricity generation, adopted by Europe, needs to come back home for a visit.
Funding Mosques from the State Treasury
Secular European governments give money to Muslim congregations in an effort to defang radicalism imported from foreign sources.
Europe’s Muslims Get to be the Continent’s New Jews
Issues swirling around Europe’s non-assimilation of its Muslim population recall its anti-Semitic past, according to scholar Reza Aslan.
Mixing Europe and the Middle East
It's a long and sorrowful history. But is the new Islamophobia also "anti-Semitism"?
Does Europe Need to Be More American?
Europe, the cradle of the nation-state, wasn’t “founded” as a place for poor, tired and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. So might it take lessons from Uncle Sam on welcoming immigrants?
Has ‘Multiculturalism’ Really Failed?
Germany's Angela Merkel stirred up a hornet's nest when she decried "multiculturalism," but that reaction suggests the hornets hadn't been paying attention.
Liberals Gone Wild
A short digression on the meaning of a word that apparently has no generally agreed-upon political definition.
Greatly Exaggerated: Rumors of the Euro’s ‘Collapse’
With the pan-European currency trading in the middle of its historical range, perhaps the doomsayers should reduce their caffeine intake a bit.