"Thomas More and the Heretics: Statesman or Fanatic?"

Thomas More Was Not "Unnaturally Fond of Torturing Heretics"

Thomas More generally shared in the prejudices of his age and was complicit in practices (most especially the use of state coercion with regard to religious belief) that we would today regard as morally odious. 
That's just to say that he lived in the early sixteenth century and not the early twenty-first century, and we could have a lively discussion about how the Catholic Church should assess the sanctity of people with the benefit of historical and moral hindsight.



Mirror of justice

Europe: Thérapie de choc pour éviter la désintégration qui menace : l'union bancaire européenne.

 L'"union économique totale" ou la mort ?

ALAIN FRANCO

José Manuel Barroso a proposé une thérapie de choc pour éviter la désintégration qui menace : l'union bancaire européenne

• Comment enrayer la contagion ? 
• Comment faire en sorte qu'une "Grexit", la sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro, ne déclenche pas une "Spanic", une panique en Espagne ? 
• Comment rétablir la confiance des marchés vis-à-vis des États, des Bourses vis-à-vis des entreprises, des Grecs ou des Espagnols vis-à-vis de leurs banques ? 

Ces questions sont à la base du remue-méninges qui continue d'agiter les dirigeants de la zone euro.

lepoint.fr

The days of teenage smugglers are past, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service insists.

Lithuania’s Boy Smugglers Go Back to Class

by Linas Jegelevicius

The numbers say that fewer children are skipping school to help with the illegal trade.

Just a couple of years ago, it was not unusual for groups of boys at the high school in Lumpenai, a few kilometers from the Lithuanian-Russian border, to run out of class as the teacher looked on helplessly.
tol.org

Small is Best: lessons from advanced economies

SMALL IS BEST

Economies with small governments tend to grow faster than those with big governments. 

This is the conclusion of Small is Best: lessons from advanced economies, by Ryan Bourne and Thomas Oechsle, published on Friday 25 May by the Centre for Policy Studies

download pdf: http://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/120522105633-smallisbest.pdf

cps.org.uk

Understanding China in its true perspective

China’s Approach to the Globalized Economy

Speech at Centre for Policy Studies

Jin Liqun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

London, May 23rd

1. Reflections on the eurozone sovereign debt crisis,
2. Understanding China in its true perspective,
3. Efforts towards better cooperation between China and Europe

cps.org.uk

Chen Guangcheng: First U.S. presentation

Chen Guangcheng: Basic Human Goodness Will Overcome

Corruption, Suppression 

BY JOHN BURGER

In his first U.S. presentation, the dissident makes no mention of his work combating abuses of one-child policy, but outlines basic view of restoring rule of law in China.

Chen Guangcheng this morning gave his first presentation in the United States since his dramatic departure from China this month.

Chen, who ran into trouble with local authorities in his native Shandong Province after documenting abuses stemming from China’s one-child-per-couple restriction, answered questions from an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

ncregister.com

El Valle de los Caídos

El Valle de los Caídos fue en primer lugar un monumento a la victoria de los nacionales. Una victoria sobre la revolución y el totalitarismo de quienes pretendían acabar con la base cultural cristiana y disgregar la propia nación española. Franco entendió esa victoria como un hecho de proyección nacional e internacional, pues fue un gran triunfo en el campo de batalla sobre el stalinismo. El resultado fue probablemente el monumento más grandioso, armónico e inspirado del siglo XX en su género.

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