The fact that some bad people halfway around the world are doing some reprehensible things does not automatically mean that "we" have to do something about it. But if we do, we could at least try to come up with more innovative ways of responding.

There is no question that the group that calls itself the Islamic State is savage beyond description. But the fact that the group is evil is insufficient grounds for war; the issue is not whether ISIS is bad, but rather whether intervention would improve matters.

Jacques de Guenin est un économiste et militant libéral français. Il est ingénieur de formation, titulaire d'un Master of Sciences de l'Université de Berkeley (Californie), et membre du comité directeur de Liberté Chérie et administrateur de l'ALEPS.

La crise que nous traversons aujourd'hui n'est pas seulement financière ou économique. Elle a des conséquences humaines et morales bien réelles. Mais cette crise est aussi une formidable opportunité de repenser le rôle de l'État dans nos vies.

State education that requires all children to learn the same subjects in the same way risks provoking envy among children who compete to win the approval of teachers, and this can result in the bullying of peers.

Au-delà de son intérêt pour qui aime l'Histoire, cet essai original est également l'occasion d'entamer une réflexion sur le monde contemporain et sur l'évolution politique, économique et sociale des États-Unis, qui semblent suivre la voie de la Rome antique.

Medical personnel employed by Western governments may have been overconfident in their ability to deal with the virus, initially advising that the disease allegedly cannot by transmitted through the air or by being in the presence of an Ebola-infected patient.

If we miss the opportunity to protect consumers now, say proponents of regulation, if we fail to enforce neutrality with respect to sources and types of data transmitted, we face the end of the Internet as we know it.