'It is wise,' he said, 'to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.'

But as a leader, you cannot let people know. 'You must put up a front.'

Though Mandela has retreated from the public stage, the 90-year-old still speaks out, as he did in condemning Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

The Social Limits to Growth, many good things in life are 'positional'.

Yet it is not self-evident that less work would mean more happiness.

Capitalism can make a society rich and keep it free. Don't ask it to make you happy as well

'Take this as a work belonging to you and me as a summary of our months of work together.'

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles.

Nearly 100 years after its establishment, Israel's oldest kibbutz has voted to shed its socialist principles.

Red wine exercises its benefits before it enters the bloodstream

A South Korean retailer plans a bold move into China.

The government's new-found appetite for austerity has strict limits.

Hugo Chavez invites the private sector to help him build socialism.

We all have much to learn from the great programs and projects running all over the world.

Sport is more than fun and games. It can inspire individuals, teach the young what's right and transform lives for the better.

Democracy is not improving people's lives.

From Russia to Bangladesh, democracy is under assault. Here's what the West must do to save it

Europe's fishermen (and their descendants) may yet have a viable industry.

Europe's governments must ignore fishermen's demands--for the sake of the fishing industry.

It was not the legacy he wanted--but in the end, it was not for him to decide.

He's famed as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but Conan Doyle's letters show the scope of his ambitions.

It probably would even if yesterday's 'dynamitards' become today's 'plutoniumards'.

The vast majority of anarchists, like the vast majority of Islamists, were not violent, and some of those who once believed in bloodshed, notably, Kropotkin, were to turn against it in time.

Jihadists, of course, cross borders, and many are presumed to be indoctrinated by foreigners, even if they commit their deeds at home.

France, too, had its ‘dynamitards’.

Mr bin Laden would surely delight in some dramatic assassinations today.

Repression did little to stop anarchist violence. But eventually the world moved on and the movement withered.

European subsidies produce other weird anomalies.

Despite the ruling, U.S. cotton growers argue that their cotton-support schemes fall within WTO limits.

Developing nations are beginning to use the WTO to push back.