The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of t….

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of mil….

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not fel….

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment f….

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated..

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice..

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-….

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue..

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasio….

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine ….

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required..

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors..

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to….

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distin….

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run….

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbl….

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign p….

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors..

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise..

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction..

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen..